Updates

Johnson & Johnson subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics announced on May 16 that it will stop sales of metal-on-metal hip replacements. This comes after the company saw the market for the products drop significantly amid lawsuits and calls for increased regulation and after the 2010 recall of the DePuy ASR hip implant. Johnson… Read more

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized a smartphone app for doctors to more easily report safety issues with high-risk medical devices such as metal-on-metal hip replacements according to the Wall Street Journal. RLG maintains a Hip Replacement Lawsuit Center that offers information on hip implants and filing a hip lawsuit and represents clients in… Read more

Metal-on-metal hip replacements such as the DePuy Pinnacle have been in the news frequently because of hip lawsuits related to the devices’ alleged side effects such as metal poisoning. RLG notes that pending Pinnacle lawsuits in federal courts are numbering almost 4 000 according to court documents in In re: DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. Pinnacle… Read more

With hip replacement lawsuits mounting a new study in the December 2012 issue of Arthritis Care & Research reveals that total hip replacement patients who are younger heavier or taller are more likely to need revision surgery than other patients. After studying Medicare claims in 29 states in which… Read more

The Rottenstein Law Group which represents clients with claims stemming from harms caused by defective medical devices encourages any interested persons to provide comments to the FDA on the custom device exemption. According to a notice posted on November 19 in the Federal Register the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)… Read more

The Rottenstein Law Group which represents clients with claims stemming from the surgical implantation of hip replacement devices manufactured and sold by DePuy Orthopaedics and other companies notes that the number of federal Pinnacle hip device lawsuits has passed 2 500. A “statistics report” dated November 14 2012 prepared… Read more

The Rottenstein Law Group which represents clients with claims stemming from the failures of defective hip replacement devices manufactured and sold by various companies is helping to publicize the results of a large new study linking risk of stroke with total hip replacement surgery. According to a recent article in… Read more

The Rottenstein Law Group which represents clients with claims stemming from the failure of defective hip replacement devices is helping to publicize the reason for DePuy Orthopaedics’ recent recall of unused custom orthopedic implants and the number of implants affected by that recall. Johnson & Johnson subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics… Read more

The Rottenstein Law Group which represents clients with claims stemming from the failures of defective hip replacement devices manufactured and sold by various companies looks forward to the outcome of continued conference between the parties to the Pinnacle multidistrict litigation as recently ordered by the court. United States District… Read more

The Rottenstein Law Group which represents clients with claims stemming from the failures of defective hip replacement devices manufactured and sold by various companies is helping to publicize the recall of all unused custom orthopedic implants manufactured by DePuy Orthopaedics . According to a report from Mass Device J&J subsidiary DePuy… Read more

The Rottenstein Law Group which represents clients with claims stemming from the failures of defective hip replacement devices manufactured and sold by various companies is anticipating satisfaction for victims when trials of federal DePuy Pinnacle hip lawsuits begin in 2014. Federal DePuy Pinnacle hip implant lawsuits consolidated for pretrial procedures… Read more

The Rottenstein Law Group which represents clients with claims stemming from the alleged failures of hip replacement devices manufactured and sold by various companies has learned of new research showing that patients who undergo hip or knee replacement surgeries are more likely to suffer heart attacks than patients who have not had those… Read more

The Rottenstein Law Group which represents clients with claims stemming from the failures of defective hip replacement devices manufactured and sold by various companies is troubled by reports that the all-metal Pinnacle system might well be even more dangerous to recipients than the embattled ASR system. According to a Reuters… Read more

The Rottenstein Law Group has learned that the FDA has proposed a rule that would require most medical devices distributed in the United States to carry a unique device identifier or UDI. The FDA has proposed implementing an identification system that would assign to each medical device a unique code that… Read more

The Rottenstein Law Group is frustrated by the FDA’s failure to take aggressive measures to protect patients from metal-on-metal hip implants despite the negative opinions of the devices expressed by experts at a special meeting convened by the FDA this week. At the FDA meeting which took place on June 27… Read more

The Rottenstein Law Group was not surprised by the large number of complaints about all-metal hip implants received by the FDA from 2000 to 2011 but the firm is nonetheless disconcerted. According to a recent Bloomberg report between 2000 and 2011 recipients of metal-on-metal hip implants lodged nearly… Read more

The Rottenstein Law Group which represents clients with claims stemming from the recall of defective hip replacement devices manufactured and sold by DePuy Orthopaedics suspects that a current publicity effort is designed to improve public opinion of DePuy in advance of imminent trials over the company’s embattled products. … Read more

The Rottenstein Law Group which represents clients with claims stemming from the severe adverse side effects of defective medical devices is fully supportive of the efforts of the U.S. FDA to study the dangers posed by metal-on-metal hip implants. According to a recent Reuters report on June 27-28 the… Read more

The Rottenstein Law Group is fully supportive of the efforts of Congressman Edward J. Markey to achieve “closure of dangerous medical device loophole.” Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) late last month released a comprehensive new report titled “Defective Devices Destroyed Lives: Loophole Leaves Patients Unprotected from Flawed Medical Devices.” Rep. Markey’s report highlights… Read more

The Rottenstein Law Group is disheartened by a report from Britain exposing concerted efforts to keep the public ignorant of the dangers of metal hip devices. In a feature article published on February 28 the British peer-reviewed medical journal BMJ asserted that “[h]undreds of thousands of patients around the world may have… Read more