Not Guilty! DePuy wins its 2nd ASR metal-on-metal hip product liability case

NOT GUILTY! CHICAGO JURY SIDES WITH DEPUY (Orthopedics This Week)
Not guilty!
DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc. announced on April 16, 2013 that a jury in Cook County Illinois returned a verdict in favor of the company in a product liability lawsuit over the company’s ASR metal-on-metal hip system.
It’s the second jury to reach a decision. On March 8, 2013 the first jury in Los Angeles awarded $8.3 million to the plaintiff in compensatory damages because they found the design was defective. That jury did not award any punitive damages because the company was cleared of charges of selling the device wh...