DePuy Loses Round One In First Product Liability Trial Involving ASR Metal-On-Metal Hip
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
A California Superior Court jury agreed with the plaintiff that DePuy's metal-on-metal hip was defective in design, and awarded him $8.3 million in damages. Plaintiff Loren Kransky was the first of 10,700 U.S. litigants slated to be heard in court.
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