How do I know if I have a defective hip implant or defective hip replacement?
The past few years Stryker and Zimmer have both faced scrutiny by investigators regarding their hip implants. With Stryker and Zimmer, it was primarily an issue of audible squeaking noises. Patients could be heard walking down the hall of an office building due to a defect in the design of the Stryker hip implant system. Zimmer had a problem with its dorum cup hip implant system and it was later determined by authorities that the manufacturing plant of the dorum cup was using defective components. This resulted in recalls and countless revision surgeries.
Now the latest injustice is that being perpetrated by DePuy, a subsidiary of medical giant Johnson & Johnson. DePuy designs and manufactures the DePuy ASR hip implant system, which is intended to be a long term surgical orthopedic solution to patients in need of a hip replacement. The problem is that DePuy is recalling thousands and thousands of ASR hip implants due to a structural defect located in the acetabular cup. Patients with a DePuy ASR hip implant are urged to contact a DePuy hip implant recall lawyer immediately to discuss your rights.
The DePuy defective hip implant claim is thought to have effected almost 15% of all patients with this hip replacement system. A defect rate of this magnitude is a serious claim, enough so that the Federal Government is stepping in to investigate claims that DePuy had actual knowledge of the defect at a point in time in which the company could have made design changes, warned orthopedic surgeons of the defect, and warned patients of the known issues with the hip implant. This conduct arguably exceeds the threshold of negligence and reaches levels of recklessness that may entitle DePuy defective hip implant patients to make a claim for punitive damages.
You may be entitle to compensation for your defective hip implant claim. Contact our toll-free hip replacement defect lawyers by calling toll-free (866) 840-3636. Don't sit idly by in the hopes that your hip implant is not defective. Find out know before you have a potential statute of limitations issue with your product liability claim.