Pinnacle Plaintiffs Organizing for Multi-District Litigation
In August of 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requested that DePuy Orthopaedics issue a recall for its ASR hip replacement system. DePuy complied, as according to its own reports, 12-13% of patients who had the device were experiencing premature failure. DePuy is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of medical devices and has experienced some fallout from its recall of the ASR system. The general feeling is that the company failed to observe its duty to ensure its
