J&J Jury Urged to Award $5 Million for Failed Metal Hip
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Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy unit defectively designed a metal-on-metal hip implant and should award an Illinois nurse at least $5 million for harm caused by her device’s failure, her lawyer argued to a Chicago jury.
DePuy knowingly sold defective ASR hips before J&J, the world’s largest seller of health-care products, recalled all 93,000 of the metal-on-metal implants in August 2010, said Denman Heard, an attorney for Carol Strum, the plaintiff. Heard also urged jurors to award extra damages to punish the company.