DePuy hip replacement

The City of Oxnard has agreed to pay $6,700,000 to the family of Alfonso Limon, Jr., an innocent 21-year old man who died on October 13, 2012 when Oxnard police officers shot him to death after allegedly mistaking him for a suspect they were pursuing after a traffic stop. The City of Oxnard and...

Toledo, Ohio - November 19, 2013 - Today, Johnson & Johnson and attorneys representing the plaintiffs announced a preliminarily settlement of more than $2.5 billion in litigation over Johnson & Johnson’s recalled DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc. ASR hip implant systems.  This is largest settlement ever reached in litigation involving a medical device.  The proposed settlement...

On the heels of two lawsuits filed against Johnson & Johnson to address failings in their improperly marketed DePuy ASR metal-on-metal hip implants, and ahead of a lawsuit set to begin this September to address the same, there are now rumblings that the health care giant plans to offer $3 billion to settle all...

Over 10,000 lawsuits have been filed against Johnson & Johnson over allegations that the DePuy ASR metal on metal hip implant provided to patients around the country and the world were knowingly defective before being brought to the market.  Panish Shea & Boyle successfully represented the plaintiff in one of those cases earlier this...

Jurors tasked with deciding the fate of the second lawsuit regarding the DePuy ASR metal on metal hip implant have begun deliberations, and the plaintiff’s attorney has asked for upwards of $5 million to be given to his client. That client is a Chicago-area nurse who was implanted with the all-metal device back in...

The second lawsuit to come to trial in regards to the recalled DePuy ASR metal on metal hip implant is still ongoing in Chicago.  The case has illuminated apparent knowledge of the device’s faulty design among DePuy executives.  Johnson & Johnson disputes this conclusion, but testimony from a director of marketing highlights the potential...