A Michigan resident claims that DePuy Orthopaedics (DePuy) and Johnson & Johnson failed to adequately warn consumers about the risks and severity of Depuy ASR taltal hip implant complications and is joining hundreds of others in multidistrict litigation against the hip implant manufacturer for injuries she allegedly suffered.

Plaintiff Linda E. alleges in the hip implant lawsuit that she sustained severe hip replacement complications, causing her ability to perform normal physical activities to substantially diminish as a direct result of DePuy’s defective manufacturing and marketing of the ASR hip implant.

Linda underwent a total hip arthroplasty procedure on her right hip in February 2009, where she received the ASR hip implant metal insert.

Shortly after, she began suffering debilitating pain, inflammation, stiffness and weakness and was forced to undergo premature hip revision surgery to have the ASR Hip implant extracted in May 2015.

Linda E. filed her ASR hip implant lawsuit as a short form complaint for inclusion into the larger multidistrict litigation currently in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio.

ASR Complications Prompt DePuy Hip Recall

In August 2010, DePuy issued a worldwide recall of its ASR hip implant after data from the National Joint Registry of England and Wales showed that one out of every eight patients (12-13 percent) who had received the devices had to undergo hip revision surgery within five years of receiving it.

Prior to the recall, roughly 93,000 defective ASR hip implants were sold by DePuy and implanted in patients in the United States and abroad.

The ASR metal hip implant is considered by a number of orthopedic experts to be a defective product because of its high failure rate when compared with other hip replacement devices.

However, the DePuy hip recall is also considered to have come way too late by some orthopedic experts; the ASR hip implant recall follows more than two years of complaints from patients who needed costly and painful hip revision surgery within a few years of receiving the ASR hip implant.

DePuy Hip Lawsuits

An increasing number of ASR hip implant lawsuits continue to be filed nationwide. The ASR metal hip implant claimants allege many hip implant complications, including thigh pain, difficulty walking, lesions, pseudotumors, and metallosis.

Patients who received the recalled ASR hip implant may be entitled to participate in a DePuy hip lawsuit to recover financial compensation for damages incurred as a result of being implanted with a defective DePuy hip implant.

Lost wages, medical bills, and pain and suffering are among the damages ASR hip implant patients may be entitled to receive.

The DePuy ASR Hip Implant MDL is In re: DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. ASR Hip Implant Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2197, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Western Division.