All pretrial proceedings in lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson over recalled devices used in hip- replacement surgery will be overseen by a federal judge in Ohio, a judicial panel decided.
U.S. District Judge David A. Katz in federal court in Toledo will supervise evidence-gathering efforts in cases over the ASR XL Acetabular System, which J&J’s DePuy Orthopaedics unit recalled on Aug. 26 after the implants stopped functioning properly.
Such consolidation “will serve the convenience of the parties and witnesses and promote the just and efficient conduct of the litigation,” according to the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. While yesterday’s MDL order refers to eight pending lawsuits, plaintiff’s lawyer Steven T. Baron of Baron & Budd in Dallas said he represents “hundreds of claimants” with defective hips.
Saturday, December 04, 2010
J&J Hip Replacement Lawsuit Proceedings Assigned to One U.S. Judge in Ohio - Bloomberg
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