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A number of unsubstantiuated report s have recently appeared in the mass media regarding settlement of the DePuy/Johnson and Jonson ASR hip litigation. No settlement has been confirmed by the court or lead counsel in the litigation but ASR patients continue to suffer the consequences of the faulty device. Walkup, Melodia, Kelly and Schoenberger has…

More than 700 Stryker hip lawsuits stemming from last year’s recall of Rejuvenate and ABG II Modular-Neck Hip Stems are now pending in courts throughout the country with than 400 Stryker hip lawsuits filed in Bergen County New Jersey Superior Court. (In Re Stryker Rejuvenate Hip Stem and the ABG II Modular Hip Stem Litigation,…

Walkup Melodia’s medical device attorneys handle cases across the country relating to government approved devices. Recently attorneys at the firm have been made aware of the FDA’s emergency recall of a potentially defective medical tool kit. H&H Medical Corporation is recalling its H&H Emergency Cricothyrotomy Kit. Some of these kits could have a defective endotracheal…

Lawsuits against Stryker Orthopaedics continue to advance across the country. The medical device maker faces hundreds of lawsuits in connection with its Rejuvenate and ABG II Modular-Neck Hip Stems. Walkup Melodia attorneys, who tried the first successful ASR metal on metal hip case in Los Angeles, are seeing a steady stream of new clients interested…

(Reuters) – A federal judge in California said a plaintiff’s fraud claims against Medtronic over its Infuse bone graft device were not pre-empted by federal law, in a ruling that could bolster plaintiffs in hundreds of similar lawsuits. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in the Northern District of California on Thursday rejected Medtronic’s argument that…

The law firms of Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger (San Francisco) and Panish, Shea & Boyle (Los Angeles) today reached a resolution of what was scheduled to be the first California “bellwether” trial of a failed DePuy ASR XL hip lawsuit. The trial in the case which settled today, Ottman v. DePuy, was slated to…

Metal-on-metal hip implant devices were once touted as a medical breakthrough. Now thousands of lawsuits are piling up against medical device manufacturers who once made billions from all-metal hip implants. The first federal case against Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy Orthopaedics division was recently postponed due to the unavailability of experts. These experts are in high…

The first federal lawsuit involving DePuy Orthopaedics’s defective ASR hip implants has been delayed for the second time. The trial was set to begin on Tuesday, but U.S. District Judge David A. Katz postponed the trial date again, citing difficulties that both sides are having with scheduling expert witnesses. Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy division faces…

Lawyers representing injured plaintiffs recently wrote a letter to federal officials alleging that DePuy Orthopaedics broke federal law by hiding expert opinions that its metal-on-metal hip implants are defective. Attorneys from the San Francisco law firm of Walkup Melodia Kelly & Schoenberger recently sent the letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration calling for…

Stryker Orthopaedics recently announced a recall of its Rejuvenate and ABG II modular stem hip implants. This is the most recent recall impacting a class of all-metal hip implants that have been proven to be harmful to patients. Traditional hip implants use both metal and plastic components. Hip implants using only metal parts were introduced…