Out of the mire?

摘要

For the past few years Johnson & John-son (j&j) has stumbled clumsily through the legal and reputational swamps of contaminated pills and faulty fake hips. Under a new chief executive, it is supposed to be taking a confident stride onto firmer terrain. On April 26th Alex Gorsky, a senior manager who joined the company as a salesman in 1988, was due to take charge. Yet the ground is still worry-ingly soft. America's Justice Department wants Mr Gorsky to testify about alleged fraud, j&j says he has nothing to do with the case.