With such disparate outcomes between the two cases, it is difficult to predict the future of the nearly 11,000 cases left to try. District Judge David Katz is presiding over more than 7,000 federal ASR lawsuits which have been consolidated into an MDL in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. More than 2,000 are scheduled for California state court and 500 are in the state court in Illinois with the remainder scattered in state courts around the U.S.

The first DePuy ASR hip implant trial began on January 25^th in the California Superior Court in Los Angeles County. The case, Kransky v. DePuy, revolves around Loren Kransky, a 65-year old man who received a DePuy ASR hip implant in 2007 and was forced to undergo revision surgery just five years later, in 2012.