J&J Failed to Warn of Hip Implant’s Risks, Jurors Told
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Johnson & Johnson failed to warn doctors of the risks of defective metal hip implants that it didn’t test properly, a lawyer told a Los Angeles jury in the first of 10,000 lawsuits over the device to go to trial.
Loren Kransky, a retired prison guard who got an ASR XL hip implant in 2007, sued in state court in 2011 and had the device replaced last year. J&J, the world’s biggest seller of health-care products, withdrew the devices in August 2010 after citing U.K. data showing more than 12 percent failed within five years.