DePuy Orthopaedics, a unit of Johnson and Johnson, has began
fielding strong defense lawyers as the second trial over their alleged
“defective” DePuy ASR hip system has already started hearing opening statements
in the Chicago, Illinois courts.
After losing $8.3 million on March 8 with
the Los Angeles court jury decision over the
ASR XL design, one of the two hip implants that was recalled in 2010,
the jurors from Chicago heard opening statements in March 11 by Carol Strum’s
lawyers. Fifty-four-year-old Strum, a nurse in Illinois, claims DePuy’s ASR hip
was defective and the company failed to warn of risks. The case is considered
as the second of 10,750 lawsuits against J&J, the world’s largest seller of
health-care products, to go in court.
On March 8, the first
verdict against DePuy was announced in the California courts and awarded
Montana retired prison guard Loren “Bill” Kransky compensatory damages of $8.3
million after suffering from several
symptoms of the faulty hip implant. Despite his age at 65, he took the risk of
undergoing the revision which was considered by surgeons as the most difficult
and painful way of surgery.
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