Setback for Johnson & Johnson's HC plea in hip implants compensation case

Govt had asked J&J to pay compensation to faulty hip implant patients

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused to hear Johnson and Johnson’s (J&J) plea challenging a government notification asking them to pay compensation to patients affected by faulty hip implants and deferred the matter to February 26 for next hearing.

Johnson and Johnson had approached the Delhi high court seeking an urgent hearing claiming that government’s directive asking the company to pay compensation to the victims of faulty hip implants had no basis in law and thus must be stayed for now. The court, however, refused to hear the company’s plea as it was “neither important nor urgent”.