J&J Engineer Studied Hip Redesign for 3 Years, Jury Told
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A bioengineer at Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy unit testified that he spent three years studying a redesign of metal-on-metal hip devices that the company recalled in 2010 because of their failure rate.
James Anderson, testifying by videotape in state court in Los Angeles, recalled his disappointment that the work dubbed Project Alpha ended in 2008 with no change to DePuy’s ASR hips. Jurors saw Anderson late yesterday at the first of 10,000 lawsuits to go to trial over claims that J&J defectively designed the 93,000 ASR hips that DePuy recalled.