The defective hip design team at Walkup Melodia in San Francisco is representing clients with defective Stryker hips in claims against the manufacturer. Stryker Corporation recalled its ABG II and

A supplemental settlement fund was recently announced in connection with the DePuy ASR hip implant litigation. Thousands of patients filed lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy Orthopaedics division after being

U.S. District Court Judge David Katz has appointed Walkup Attorneys Michael A. Kelly and Khaldoun Baghdadi to a national committee of attorneys overseeing a proposed multibillion dollar settlement of as

A hearing in the courtroom of the MDL Judge supervising the federal litigation in the DePuy hip cases has been scheduled in Toledo, Ohio, next Tuesday, November 19, 2013. It

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

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

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 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

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

A Los Angeles judge recently upheld an $8.3 million verdict against Johnson & Johnson arising out of its defective ASR hip implants. The verdict was awarded last March to Loren