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A jury Friday awarded $8.3 million to a former prison guard who accused Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy Orthopaedics subsidiary of knowingly marketing a faulty hip implant that was later recalled. Jurors found that the ASR XL implant was defectively designed …

A California Appeals court recently decided that emotional distress is a viable claim when associated with a dog’s injury. The appeals court found that California law allows a pet owner to recover for mental suffering caused by another’s intentional act …