Bernstein Liebhard LLP Applauds the Creation of Two National Joint Registries New York 5/04/2011 06:41 PM GMT (TransWorldNews) More than 700,000 knee and hip replacement surgeries take place in the United States each year, yet prior to the massive August 2010 recall of the DePuy ASR hip implants, which affected 37,000 recipients nationwide, there was no national joint registry to track and...
On March, 25, 2011, plaintiff Catherine Falvey filed a petition with the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation to consolidate all of the federal Pinnacle hip lawsuits that Johnson & Johnson and their DePuy Orthopeadics subsidiary is currently defending nationwide.
On March, 25, 2011, plaintiff Catherine Falvey filed a petition with the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation to consolidate all of the federal Pinnacle hip lawsuits that Johnson & Johnson and their DePuy Orthopeadics subsidiary is currently defending nationwide.
Bernstein Liebhard LLP Reports that Preliminary Discovery is Underway in DePuy MDL Initial discovery in the federal DePuy litigation has begun. On March, 25, 2011, plaintiffs took the first step in the discovery process by identifying and noticing certain witnesses for depositions. According to the deposition notices, plaintiffs plan to take three separate depositions of DePuy executives...