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Articles Tagged with Metal-on-Metal Hip Replacement

Metal Hip Failure and Metallosis. Many metal on metal hip replacement systems and metal hip components that were implanted have been linked to high premature failure rates and other severe complications.

Metal Hip Failure and Metallosis

These metal on metal hip designs were touted to last over 20 years and provide greater mobility and patient functionality.

Metal Hip Failure and Metallosis

As a Texas Metal on Metal hip attorney and medical doctor I am providing this important update to the folks injured by a defective metal hip implant. According to Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), it will stop selling metal-on-metal and ceramic-on-metal hip replacements because of a lower demand for the devices.This decision announcement was made in May 2013.

Metal liners in the Ultamet Metal-on-Metal Articulation and the Complete Ceramic-on-Metal Acetabular Hip System will no longer be available worldwide after August 31. J&J’s DePuy Orthopaedics unit will stop selling related products through 2014 to simplify and streamline its offerings.

Metal on Metal Hip Replacement Sales


A New York woman, Ann McCracken’s defective hip claim will be the first DePuy ASR hip lawsuit to go to trial in federal court.  McCracken’s case is a “bellwether” case, designed to determine how juries will respond to presented evidence and testimony.

7,800 Federal DePuy ASR Lawsuits

More than 7,800 lawsuits have been brought in the federal court system by folks who have problems with the recalled DePuy ASR hip implant. These metal on metal hip cases are consolidated as part of an MDL, or Multidistrict Litigation, which is centralized before U.S. District Judge Katz in the Northern District of Ohio.

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