Court rules will see faulty hip patients miss out on compensation
More than 1,000 legal proceedings have been initiated in this country against hip implant maker DePuy
Hundreds of patients fitted with allegedly defective hip implants are ineligible to take part in a compensation process established by the High Court last year.
More than 1,000 proceedings were initiated in Ireland against DePuy International after the company’s ASR and ASR XL orthopaedic products were subject to a worldwide recall in 2010. DePuy is a subsidiary of pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson.
High Court documents filed by the medical supplier last October ...
