DePuy ASR Recall Following the DePuy ASR recall, which was announced in August 2010 by DePuy Orthopaedics, court documents indicate that some 11,500 lawsuits have been filed over the device in courts throughout the U.S. Plaintiffs involved in these cases allege that toxic metal debris can shed from the metal hip???s chromium-cobalt ball and cup, leading to pain, metallosis and other complications