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$2.5 Billion DePuy ASR Settlement Finalized; Announced by Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger | Intercooler.
The funding of the settlement negotiated on behalf of DePuy ASR patients who had their devices taken out prior to August 31, 2013 became final today when DePuy Orthopedics and its parent company Johnson & Johnson announced they would fund the multi-billion dollar deal.
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) May 16, 2014
The proposed settlement announced in November 2013 had been made to patients who underwent a second operation, called a revision surgery, to remove the faulty ASR and replace it with another hip prostheses. Walkup Melodia lawyers Matthew Davis, Khaldoun Baghdadi, and Michael Kelly were part of the settlement negotiation and oversight team that brought the deal to fruition. Approximately 7,200 American ASR patients — more than 94% of those who were eligible — decided to accept the settlement. DePuy and J&J had announced a requirement that at least 94% of patients would be required to accept the proposal for funding to occur. (Los Angeles County Court record BC456086)
DePuy and J&J will now deposit the funds in an escrow account while a neutral third party processes the thousands of individual claims. The first settlement payments are expected this summer and will be made on a rolling basis thereafter.
Full article here – $2.5 Billion DePuy ASR Settlement Finalized; Announced by Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger | Intercooler.
Earl, doesn’t Depuy make Smith & Nephew Resurfacings? Why are they exempt from lawsuits?
4-hip-oper mickey
No – different companies. Smith and Nephew are English ratbags.
You know better than I, though I thought I read that S&N were the American version of the Depuy, or maybe it’s Birmingham resurfacings. Where and who is the CEO of S&N? Do you know?
so grateful for your ongoing research for all of us,
mickey
The Birmingham Hip Resurfacing (BHR) is the “metal on metal” toxic crap made by the company Smith and Nephew, based in Birmingham, England. They have offices all over the world but, yes, they are English Ratbags.
oh, and Mickey – in the US they are exempt from law suits because they sleazed a “pre-market approval” on their BHR (many companies made the metal on metal hip – all failing and causing damage to our bodies) which no lawyers will go anywhere near it because they have to go to the supreme court to get the pma “reversed” first. This however, can be done and I am willing to get a petition going on it…they were wrong to do this and they know it. Sleaze bags.
Just because Smith & Nephew didn’t sell the number of metal on metal hip units in the USA and Abroad they must be held accountable for all the patients they have hurt.
The number of failures according to recent publications goes far beyond the acceptable 1 % failure rate, not even close.
I am curious just how many they did sell though. I think the number could be quite high (gee, wonder why they won’t give this info out?!). I know the doctor that put mine in did a ton – and he was about the only one that did them in the Boston area (Mass Gen, The Baptist, The Brighams, all top hospitals in the country didn’t put the resurfaced hip in – they aren’t that stupid).