Firm pays €1m over faulty hip ops
Medical device supplier DePuy International pays more than €1 million to a dozen Irish patients who claimed they were harmed by an artificial hip replacement product
The confidential settlements were made before a landmark action against the US conglomerate, owned by Johnson & Johnson, began in the High Court last Wednesday.
John Heeney, a retired CIE signalman from Thurles, Co Tipperary, brought personal injury proceedings against DePuy and the HSE in the first case of its kind to reach a hearing in Europe. The case went into evidence but quickly settled for what is understood to be a six-figure ...
