J&J Counters Design Defect Claims at New Trial Over Recalled Hip
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A lawyer for Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy unit, which lost a $8.3 million verdict in the first trial over its recalled hip implant, denied claims in a second trial that the device was defectively designed.
Richard Sarver, a J&J lawyer, countered claims yesterday by Carol Strum, 54, an Illinois nurse, that her ASR hip failed after three years and she needed replacement surgery known as a revision because of the design of the metal-on-metal device. He also denied claims by Strum’s attorney that DePuy failed to warn of the risks of the ASR, which J&J recalled in August 2010.