Knowing that a hip replacement surgery is the best, and perhaps the only answer to their health problems, people with hip disorders resort to this procedure without a lot of doubts. Ideally, this operation has a good prognosis. With the entry of DePuy’s defective hip implants to the market, however, the expected prognosis shifts from good to bad.

Or even worse. To the surprise of thousands of their implants’ recipients, DePuy does not actually guarantee the consumers of these products. Th...