A Michigan man who needed a total hip replacement procedure in 2008 found that he suffered problems within a few years of the surgery, allegedly due to a defective hip implant manufactured by Johnson & Johnson unit DePuy Orthopaedics Inc.

Michael J. Hackett underwent hip replacement surgery on Jan. 9, 2008, in Michigan and received the DePuy Pinnacle hip implant. Last year, he was diagnosed with osteolysis, a problem common to artificial joint replacements such as total hip replacements. Hackett claims in a new DePuy hip lawsuit that medical device failed, causing a cyst and fluid to collect around the hip joint.

The damage was significant, the DePuy hip lawsuit claims, and he needed a revision procedure to remove the device on Feb. 5, 2014.

Since the DePuy Pinnacle hip went through the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s accelerated approval process for products similar to those already on the market, no full-scale testing was necessary. As a result, Hackett’s DePuy hip lawsuit alleges that the company failed to identify problems, including the fact that “a high percentage of recipients will suffer loosening of the device, metallosis, biologic toxicity and early device failure.”

That is in direct opposition to the claims by DePuy, which said that the Pinnacle hip implant was better than older alternatives and a process that supposedly allowed the “body to create a thin film of lubrication between surfaces, which enables ‘a more fluid range of natural motion.'” Instead, the device, like metal-on-metal hip implants from Stryker and other medical device makers, had issues with corrosion and fretting. These problems have led to thousands of product liability lawsuits and a massive metal hip implant class action lawsuit investigation.

The two pieces of the joint, both made of metal, rubbed against each other and cause shavings to enter the bloodstream. This leads to metallosis diagnoses like Hackett’s, where the metal can cause inflammation and lead to DePuy Pinnacle hip implant failure.

Reportedly, roughly one-in-100 people who have had a DePuy device inserted as part of a total joint replacement procedure have reported an adverse event of some kind.

The DePuy metal hip implant failure lawsuit is Michael J. Hackett v. DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc. et al., Case No. 14-cv-00827, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan.