You could be eligible for DePuy ASR hip settlement payments if your implant has failed, resulting in your need for revision surgery since March 2015.

Thousands of hip implant lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson have been filed since the FDA announced a voluntary recall of the DePuy ASR hip implant system in August 2010.

Nearly 37,000 of the defective implants were completed on patients within the U.S. alone.

A report from the UK found that 13 percent of the ASR hips required revision surgeries.

Check Your Eligibility for DePuy ASR Hip Settlement Payments

The DePuy ASR hip settlement payments are available to patients who could be suffering from a variety of maladies associated with a failed ASR implant system.

Like other metal-on-metal joint implants, the ASR can shed tiny metal shavings into the body, resulting in high cobalt or chromium levels in the blood. Metal poisoning, also known as metallosis, can lead to tissue death for the tissue surrounding the implant. The only way to reduce the poisoning is to have hip revision surgery to remove the offending metal parts.

Side effects from metal-on-metal hip systems can be devastating. You could be eligible for DePuy ASR hip settlement payments if you have experienced side effects such as degenerative heart disease, impaired renal function, or thyroid dysfunction.

Other conditions that can qualify you for DePuy ASR hip settlement payments include hip dislocation, reduced bone strength that has led to a fracture, or development of pseudotumors around the implant that cause pain, pressure, and inflammation.

Some patients have endured cancer caused by toxic metals entering the system. Other have suffered complete failure of the hip implant requiring replacement soon after initial surgery.

These identical complications were reported with the DePuy Pinnacle hip replacement system.  Despite the Pinnacle system’s poor record, DePuy based the ASR system in large part on the Pinnacle’s design.

The FDA warns recipients of metal-on-metal hip implants to watch for the following symptoms of device failure:

• Pain while moving or walking
• Swelling in the hip or groin area
• Lumps near the hip
• Dislocation, or feeling the joint has slipped out of place
• Squeaking or popping noises while moving

Johnson & Johnson management allegedly knew the ASR hip implant’s design was defective. In the course of one trial, attorneys provided an internal Johnson & Johnson memo indicating that 40 percent of those who underwent ASR hip implant surgery would need revision surgery within only five years.

In initial lawsuits regarding the ASR, Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay a combined $600,000 to settle three lawsuits in 2012. Those three patients had hip revision surgeries after their DePuy ASR systems failed. Each of them had experienced pain, bone damage and other adverse complications.

Johnson & Johnson has paid $4 billion to settle thousands of ASR hip replacement lawsuits.

Qualifying patients could receive up to $500,000 each in DePuy ASR hip settlement payments.

Claim processing is time-sensitive. Obtain your portion of the latest DePuy ASR hip replacement settlement if you have received hip revision surgery since March 2015.