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Personal Injury & Torts

Apr. 26, 2011

DePuy Facing More Hip Lawsuits

Already battling a flurry of lawsuits over one type of artificial hip it manufactured, DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. is now under fire for another another.


By Amy Yarbrough


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - Already slammed with lawsuits over an artificial hip it took off the market last year, DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. has come under attack for another one of its products.


On April 11, the state's Judicial Council issued an order to coordinate all of the California cases involving the company's recalled ASR hip out of San Francisco County Superior Court. Meanwhile, plaintiff...

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