Calif. DePuy ASR Plaintiff Cites Ongoing Infection in Moving for Expedited Trial Setting

SAN FRANCISCO — The judge presiding over the coordinated California hip implant cases is considering another motion for an expedited trial by a plaintiff whose physicians have said that he is suffering from an infection that began at the site of his left hip implant and will likely prove terminal.

Michael Cham’s counsel submitted a Motion for Trial Preference Jan. 7 to Judge Richard A. Kramer in San Francisco County Superior Court, stating that while Cham’s infection is currently in remission, he is 83, was previously in hospice care, and “his doctors believe the infection is highly likely to recur …