Post by pavel on Mar 17, 2016 23:15:43 GMT -6
A federal jury in Dallas on Thursday ordered the former manufacturers of metal-on-metal hip implants to pay $502 million to five Texans who claim they suffered severe injuries from the defective devices they had implanted.
The jury heard 37 days of testimony from the plaintiffs, company officials and expert witnesses for both sides before finding that DePuy Orthopaedics and its parent company, Johnson & Johnson, were liable, negligent and responsible for the plaintiffs’ chronic and painful physical problems.
After more than five days of deliberations, the eight-women and one-man jury awarded the five plaintiffs $142 million in actual damages and $360 million in punitive damages.
“I have 502 million reasons to be happy,” Mark Lanier, one of the lead lawyers for the plaintiffs, said Thursday.
Read more: www.dallasnews.com/business/headlines/20160317-dallas-jury-awards-502-million-to-five-hip-implant-victims.ece
The jury heard 37 days of testimony from the plaintiffs, company officials and expert witnesses for both sides before finding that DePuy Orthopaedics and its parent company, Johnson & Johnson, were liable, negligent and responsible for the plaintiffs’ chronic and painful physical problems.
After more than five days of deliberations, the eight-women and one-man jury awarded the five plaintiffs $142 million in actual damages and $360 million in punitive damages.
“I have 502 million reasons to be happy,” Mark Lanier, one of the lead lawyers for the plaintiffs, said Thursday.
Read more: www.dallasnews.com/business/headlines/20160317-dallas-jury-awards-502-million-to-five-hip-implant-victims.ece