August 29, 2018
A Texas federal judge on Wednesday entered more than $245 million in final judgments for a group of New York plaintiffs who won a bellwether case in November against Johnson & Johnson and its orthopedics unit when a jury found the companies liable for allegedly defective hip implants.
August 09, 2018
A group of New York plaintiffs that sued Johnson & Johnson and its orthopedics unit over allegedly defective hip implants has asked a Texas federal court for a nearly $246 million judgment in the bellwether case after a jury found the company liable for the defects and fraud.
November 16, 2017
A Texas federal jury on Thursday hit Johnson & Johnson and its DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. unit with a combined $247 million verdict in a bellwether trial over DePuy's Pinnacle line of metal-on-metal hip implants, delivering the third consecutive nine-figure verdict in the multidistrict litigation.
November 14, 2017
Six New York plaintiffs on Tuesday asked a Texas federal jury to hit Johnson & Johnson with at least a nine-figure punitive damages award to punish the company for allegedly making and marketing a defective line of metal-on-metal hip implants.
November 13, 2017
A Texas federal judge refused Monday to allow jurors in a bellwether hip implant liability trial to hear testimony related to alleged witness tampering stemming from communications between a Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP attorney for defendant Johnson & Johnson and a company sales representative.
November 08, 2017
Amid an investigation into witness tampering allegations raised in a hip implant product liability trial, a Texas federal judge on Tuesday found no evidence of crime in communications between Johnson & Johnson counsel from Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP and a company sales representative that would defeat the attorney-client privilege applicable to the records.
October 31, 2017
Johnson & Johnson on Monday told a Texas federal judge that accusations of witness tampering in an ongoing hip implant product liability trial have been "overblown" by plaintiffs' counsel, who the company said are trying to turn the issue into "an inflammatory and prejudicial sideshow."
October 24, 2017
Two Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP attorneys whose names were raised as part of an investigation into witness tampering allegations in a bellwether hip implant trial on Tuesday told a Texas federal judge they made only appropriate phone calls to an employee of Johnson & Johnson subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics Inc., whose conversation with a doctor led to the doctor's planned testimony being cancelled.
October 17, 2017
A Texas federal judge's referral to the U.S. attorney's office of witness tampering allegations in a bellwether trial over Johnson & Johnson hip implants is rare and could carry serious consequences, both inside the case and beyond, for company lawyers accused of indirectly pressuring a doctor for the plaintiffs, legal ethics experts say.
September 20, 2017
Six plaintiffs on Wednesday told a Texas federal jury that a money-driven Johnson & Johnson pushed a dangerous metal-on-metal hip implant into the world that it knew wouldn't work well and that was defectively manufactured, in the fourth bellwether trial in multidistrict litigation over the devices.