Defendants Oppose Plaintiffs’ Appeal of Common Benefit Dispute in Durom Hip Cup MDL

TRENTON, N.J. –– Defendants involved in the Durom Hip Cup Products Liability Multidistrict Litigation have opposed an appeal brought by plaintiffs’ liaison counsel, saying that they have made multiple omissions and misstatements to support its position that the court should overrule the reduction of the Common Benefit Fund.

In the Dec. 21 opposition brief filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey the defendants said that while the subject of the motion is “largely” between plaintiffs’ liaison counsel and other MDL plaintiffs and their counsel, it submitted a response to highlight what it calls an “inaccurate …