Lawyers from Pope, McGlamry, Kilpatrick, Morrison & Norwood have filed what is likely the first Georgia product liability action in a state court against the makers and distributors of an allegedly defective hip replacement device that already has cost its manufacturer millions of dollars in recall and litigation expenses.
C. Neal Pope said his firm has about 50 other clients who have had the hip replacements, and those matters are in various stages of investigation. The suit, filed in DeKalb State Court on Feb. 4, alleges that two companies owned by Johnson & Johnson-Warsaw, Ind.-based DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. and DePuy Inc.-are at fault. The companies designed, manufactured and marketed a hip replacement system with a high premature failure rate that can release toxic levels of chromium and cobalt into patients’ bodies, the complaint alleges.
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