J&J Hip Implants Not So "Hip"

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When a person goes through a painful hip replacement surgery, the last thing they want is go through the same thing again. But an abnormally high number of patients who had faulty hip implants, made by a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, had to do just that.

In a lawsuit recently filed in New Jersey, but with suits already filed in 139 federal courts and 42 state courts, patients claim that the subsidiary was aware of defects in the hip implants over 2 years before instituting a voluntary recall of the product. The new lawsuit names two Johnson & Johnson's subsidiaries, as well as Johnson & Johnson itself. Before the hip implants were recalled, they were implanted into tens of thousands of patients and funded by thousands of insurance carriers nationwide.

Shockingly, 400 complaints have been filed within the past two years with the Food and Drug Administration by patients suffering from loosening, misalignment, dislocation, fracture and harmful metal debris caused by metal-on-metal friction. In spite of their complaints, the patients say that the company continued to aggressively market the devices.