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Delhi HC sets ball rolling on J&J's faulty hip implant damages

Firm willing to pay RS 25 lakh only to 'revision surgery' patients, not others

Johnson & Johnson
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Aashish Aryan New Delhi
The Delhi High Court (HC) on Thursday set the ball rolling on payment of compensation to victims of Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J’s) articular surface replacement (ASR) implant by asking the company to pay Rs 25 lakh for now to four patients. The Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) had last month asked the company to pay Rs 65 lakh, Rs 74 lakh, Rs 1 crore, and Rs 90 lakh, respectively, to the four patients.

Hearing a plea moved by J&J challenging CDSCO orders to pay the said compensation to these patients, a single-judge Bench of Justice Vibhu Bakhru on Thursday said

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