Jury trial for first of 7,000 failed implanted hips?

Rochester woman in bellwether case on hip implants

By WILL ASTOR

Rochester Business Journal

January 7, 2013

A Rochester area woman’s court complaint has been selected to be heard as one of two bellwether cases that will help decide the outcome of several thousand suits targeting DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. and Johnson & Johnson for selling allegedly defective hip implants.

Owner of the Good Sign Co., Ann McCracken is one of 7,000 U.S. hip-replacement patients who have sued the companies over DePuy’s ASR XL Acetabular System.

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READ THE FULL LAWSUIT HERE
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50063815/Hip-Replacement-Lawsuit