J&J considering Settling Defective Hip Suit

Johnson & Johnson may pay more than $250 million to resolve suits over its ASR hip implants that were excluded from a $2.5 billion settlement of similar claims last year over the device’s failure, two people familiar with the accord said. J&J, the world’s largest seller of health-care products, is weighing whether to settle more than 1,000 lawsuits over removals …