Amended Complaint Sufficiently Detailed to Survive DePuy's 2nd Motion to Dismiss

BALTIMORE - A federal judge in Maryland who dismissed an earlier version said an amended complaint filed in a hip replacement lawsuit was sufficiently detailed to survive a motion to dismiss. Bloom v. DePuy Orthopaedics Inc., et al., No. 1:10-cv-023170-BEL (D. Md.).

Judge Benson E. Legg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland said in his July 7 order that while details of Sandra Bloom's allegations of hip replacement defects are "sparse," she provided sufficient detail of a plausible claim to survive a second motion to dismiss by DePuy Orthopaedics Inc.

Bloom received a left total hip …