Legal Opinion
United States ex rel. Nargol v. DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc.
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided February 2, 2016No. Civil Action No. 12-10896-FDSPublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON MOTION TO DISMISS
F. Dennis Saylor IV, United States District Judge
This is a qui tarn action alleging the submission of false claims to government health-care programs for a defective hip-replacement device. Relators Dr. Antoni Nargol and Dr. David Langton, who are expert witnesses in a related products-liability case involving the same device, have brought suit against defendants De-Puy Orthopaedics, Inc., DePuy, Inc., and Johnson & Johnson Services, Inc.1 DePuy manufactured and sold, among other hip-replacement devices, the Pinnacle metal-on-metal total…
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