DePuy Knee Implant Device Failed 15 Months After Hawaii Man’s Surgery, Lawsuit Alleges

HONOLULU— A Hawaii man has sued Johnson & Johnson and its DePuy Orthopaedics unit over alleged defects in the tibial component of an artificial knee implant manufactured and sold by the companies.

In a complaint filed July 1 in U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii, Manual A. Sanchez claims that the Depuy Sigma prosthesis implanted in his knee failed a little more than a year after it was implanted, forcing him to undergo numerous procedures and eventually revision surgery to correct the alleged defect.

Sanchez had the device implanted in March 2011 after it was determined that he …