The massive product recall of the hip replacement devices from DePuy Orthopedics created a loud buzz in the country. Unlike any other pharmaceutical company requesting a recall for a certain type of drug, a recall for hip implants received by more than ninety thousand people cannot be remedied by simply throwing a bottle of pills to the trash. 

It was due to the hip implants’ high failure rate that obliged DePuy Orthopedics to make the recall last August.  DePuy’s ASR Hip Resurfacing System fails in about 12% of the recipients and the ASR XL Acetabular System fails in about 13% of patients. To make things worse, DePuy reported to have sold more than 93,000 hip implants last year, which after doing the math means that today, more than 11,000 hip implant patients are going to suffer complications from the defective hip implant.

If you received a hip replacement surgery in the last two years and found out that you got a DePuy hip replacement implant, you are eligible to file for a case against DePuy Orthopedics. But before you do that, you need to know something very important first.

After the news of the hip replacement implants recall broke, hundreds of websites appeared in the internet, catering to patients affected by the hip implants and who are seeking for legal advice online. These websites appear to be sponsored or affiliated by a certain law firm, promising that the information you give them will be given to a lawyer for a case review. But actually, these websites are not in any way, affiliated with any law firm and are created and run by a marketing company.

These websites will ask for your name, phone numbers, home address and email address plus some information about your condition or complaint, promising to give you a “free case review”. But if you read the terms of these sites, you will understand that these websites will just use your personal information for marketing and promotional purposes.

When you submit your personal information and your contact information, you are actually agreeing to receive “future advertisements” from the website, which in simpler terms, mean spam. If the website says your case “will be reviewed by one or more attorneys and/or law firms”, there is a huge chance that the marketing company running the website will be selling your information to as many law firms as possible.

A situation like yours demands genuine legal advice, so be careful in giving away your personal information online.  Look for a particular name of a lawyer or a law firm in the website, and be sure to read the fine print before giving away any information. Do not let yourself be scammed.

If you are a victim and need assistance on the lawsuit, visit the Hip Replacement Lawsuit Web Site.