Hip Implant recipients across the country have been pushing for legal
action against the manufacturer of their defective prosthetic hips.
DePuy Orthopaedics, a division of Johnson and Johnson, has been on the
subject of a lot of product liability suits lately from the recipients
of their defective ASR systems, namely the ASR Hip Resurfacing System
and the ASR XL Acetabular system.
The product has been found to be prone to giving excessive pain and
hinder the mobility of the recipient even just months after the
implant procedure. This has led many to investigate on the cause for
this discomfort. It has been found that the all-metal construction for
the ball and socket joint made it possible for both ends to rub
against each other, producing metal ion filings that may harm the host
gravely. This is why many of those who availed of these systems are
now going to court against DePuy, because they believe that the
manufacturer has to stand for what they have put into the market.
The earliest case against DePuy came from North California’s Federal
District Court 17. This was a few months before the August 2010
product recall, where they removed both ASR products from the market.
Class action suits, cases with a single defendant and multiple
plaintiffs, have also been filed against DePuy. Two have been known,
one from Brian Boone of Kentucky, and the other from Carolyn Percy
from Ohio. Carolyn has not even removed her defective implant even
though it gives her so much pain because she fights for a
court-overseen revision procedure paid for by the company.
All the sad stories do not stop there. A hiker for the better part of
her life, Annie O’ Niell of Gardiner, New York, had undergone the
procedure in order to help her with her arthritis. The implant got
dislodged from her acetabulum, and she was under immense pain before
she had her revision surgery in July. Now she, like many others like
her, is in court to sue DePuy for having let them go through this
ordeal.
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