DePuy ASR Hip Implant Litigation

DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc., ASR Hip Implant Products Liability Litigation
MDL 2197
ND Ohio - David A. Katz, D.J.
"The actions share factual issues as to whether DePuy’s ASR XL Acetabular Hip System, a device used in hip replacement surgery, was defectively designed and/or manufactured, and whether DePuy failed to provide adequate warnings concerning the device, which DePuy recalled along with another ASR device,3 the ASR Hip Resurfacing System, in August 2010."

DePuy Hip Implant Settlement

slides: key elements of the DePuy ASR Product Liability Settlement

Review the trial slides (sent by email), the settlement agreement, the statutory provisions and the proposed FDA Order

U.S. ASR Hip Settlement Official settlement website

Round 2 Settlement explained (paid site - Childers, Schlueter & Smith,LLC

DePuy Hip Implant Recall Guide (company site)

DePuy hip implant recall Bernstein Liebhard ASR Recall - plaintiffs' law firm discusses the issues in a promotional website

DePuy Orthopaedics -  Hip Replacement (company site)
Understanding 510(k) 1976 to present - IOM

FDA calls for "pre-market approval" of metallic hip implants (Torts Today)

FDA proposed order requiring pre-market approval of metal to metal implants (1/14/2013)

* Premarket Approval - PMA - FDA Devices page

Timeline

The DePuy ASR - Peterson Law Firm

Sample complaint (Reardon v. DePuy - D.N.J.)


Plaintiff's opening argument (L.A. County - Superior Court)