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Csengeri Law provides expert legal advice for victims of recalled, replaced and defective metal on metal hip and joint replacement implants. The California based firm is dedicated to protecting the rights of faulty implant victims. They work tirelessly to ensure that victims of faulty metal on metal implants get the compensation they need to heal both physically and financially. Led by firm founder and chief legal expert Stephen Csengeri, the expert legal team at Csengeri Law follows all new developments in implant law in the United States and abroad. This constant monitoring of new evidence and verdicts has led to an enormous pool of accumulated legal knowledge across a wide range of implant related legal issues. For firm founder Steve Csengeri, this specialized expertise in metal on metal implant law is extremely personal and extremely important.

The latest Chicago DePuy ASR Trial is over. The second of nearly 11,000 cases regarding the recalled DePuy Articular Surface Replacement (ASR) hip replacement implant has come to an end in Chicago. On April 15, jurors heard the final arguments from Denman Heard for plaintiff Carol Strum, as well as the Johnson and Johnson legal team on behalf of DePuy. Heard asked the jury for upwards of $5 million in damages stemming from the recalled metal-on-metal implant. In an impassioned plea, Heard called for the jury to award Strum extra punitive damages to penalize the orthopedics giant.

The first two DePuy ASR hip replacement lawsuits have concluded in California and Illinois, with ultimately mixed results. Csengeri Law has followed both of these DePuy ASR hip replacement lawsuits extensively and documented the testimony and evidence in both trials and come to a few conclusions. Medical giant Johnson and Johnson is currently facing nearly 11,000 lawsuits regarding the recalled DePuy ASR and DePuy ASR XL hip replacement systems, with major cases recently taking place in Los Angeles and Chicago.

The newest DePuy ASR trial is currently underway in Chicago, and the initial testimony on the side of the defense has been quite surprising to the legal team at Csengeri Law. The first witness called by the defense in the Chicago DePuy ASR trial was Dr. Thomas P. Schmalzried. Dr. Schmalzried is a Stanford and UCLA board certified orthopedic surgeon and has the distinction of being a co-inventor of the DePuy ASR hip replacement device. Schmalzried testified in the Chicago DePuy ASR trial that out of sixty-six insertions of the device, he had to perform a revision surgery on fifteen. That means a failure rate of just over twenty three percent. Dr. Schmalzried went on to call that high of a failure rate unacceptable. According to the data in a recent report by implant focused website Mass Device, Dr. Schmalzried testified “I would not implant the ASR XL today.” Dr. Schmalzried ultimately concluded that the benefits of the metal-on-metal implant did not outweigh the risks.This testimony followed in the wake of Johnson & Johnson president Andrew Ekdahl’s testimony that the hip implant was not recalled due to defects, instead citing that it was a simple matter of the ASR implant failing to live up to “clinical expectations.”

In the final judgment of the first lawsuit in the DePuy ASR hip recall lawsuit, plaintiff Loren Kransky was awarded $8,260,790.85, primarily by the jury. Initially, Kransky and attorney Doug Saeltzer filed in excess of three hundred million in negligence and damages. Ultimately, the jury awarded Kransky the eight million in non-economic damages to Kransky, a former prison guard. While Kransky was awarded the eight million for his pain and suffering, Judge J. Stephen Czuleger issued a statement on March 22 that the both parties agreed the initial $338,136.12 awarded for medical expenses should be reduced under Montana law to account for amounts payable by a collateral source. While this does represent a significant differential between the amounts Kransky filed suit for, and the amount reward, Saeltzer says this verdict bodes well for future DePuy ASR hip recall patients seeking restitution from DePuy. “The message is that these cases are valid, that the injuries are real and severe, and Johnson & Johnson and DePuy have to pay significant money for their mistakes” Saeltzer said recently.

Csengeri Law provides legal counsel for anyone suffering from a defective, recalled or revised hip or joint implant. Most recently this has been a boon to patients who have been implanted with the DePuy ASR XL Acetabular metal-on-metal hip replacement system. The recent California Superior Court trial involving the Johnson & Johnson subsidiary ended with an award to the plaintiff, Loren Kransky in the amount of over eight million dollars. Kransky, a former prison guard, sought over one hundred and eighty million initially. While this eight million dollar award was significantly less than the plaintiff initially sought, it still represents a significant change in the legal options and alternatives available to patients who have accepted a DePuy implant.

Csengeri Law can provide advice and support to anyone suffering from a hip implant recall or revision. There are numerous legal battles going on around the country regarding hip implant recalls, and Csengeri Law maintains extensive coverage and records regarding each of them. Recently, the Johnson and Johnson subsidiary DePuy was ordered to pay over eight million dollars in damages in the first lawsuit regarding the faulty ASR hip replacement. Stryker Orthopaedics is currently waiting for trial regarding their recalled ABG II and Rejuvenate modular hip systems. Both the verdict in the recent DePuy hip implant recall case, further cases against DePuy and the upcoming Stryker lawsuits represent a changing field of legal options and alternatives for hip implant recall sufferers.

The first of over ten thousand lawsuits against the Johnson & Johnson unit DePuy has come to a verdict. A jury in California Superior Court, based in Los Angeles, has awarded $8.3 million in compensatory damages to Loren “Bill” Kransky, a retired prison guard from Montana. The jury concluded that the design of the DePuy ASR Xl metal-on-metal hip replacement caused his injuries but that DePuy properly warned of the risks and didn’t owe additional punitive damages. Johnson & Johnson, largest seller of health care products on earth, recalled 93,000 of the defective implants in August of 2010.

The first of thousands of lawsuits regarding Johnson & Johnson subsidiary DePuy and the recalled DePuy ASR Hip Replacement system is currently ongoing in California Superior Court, in Los Angeles. This DePuy ASR hip replacement lawsuit is important as it will set a precedent for thousands of suits filed against DePuy. In the ongoing trial, DePuy faces several allegations regarding the metal on metal hip replacement system. Several witnesses have provided testimony that paints DePuy in a particularly negative light. Witnesses including troubleshooters and bioengineers from inside DePuy, as well as salesmen, surgeons and professors from outside the company have testified in the ongoing DePuy ASR hip replacement lawsuit.

There are several national lawsuits pending, and currently on trial, regarding recalled and defective metal-on-metal hip implants as well as similar implants. DePuy, for example, is currently defending itself in Los Angeles regarding their recalled ASR hip replacement system. In this current California Superior Court lawsuit, former prison guard Loren Kransky contends the implants cause cobalt poisoning as well as requiring revisions. This is the first of over ten thousand lawsuits in the wake of the recalled DePuy metal-on-metal implant. Csengeri Law is aggressively monitoring this initial case for developments as the outcome will have a significant effect on cases to follow.