IN RE: DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc, Pinnacle Hip Implant Products Liability Litigation

  1. November 16, 2022

    Patient Wants Special Master DQ'd In J&J Hip Implant MDL

    One of the families suing DePuy Orthopaedics and parent company Johnson & Johnson over sales of allegedly defective hip prosthetics is mounting an effort to unseat the retired Texas judge who has been working as a special master in the multidistrict litigation for over a decade.

  2. September 20, 2019

    J&J's Litigation Bravado In Sharp Relief After Epic Opioid Trial

    Johnson & Johnson's decision this year to risk a $17 billion penalty in the nation's first opioid-crisis trial added one of the most dramatic chapters yet to the company's increasingly remarkable willingness to spurn settlements and litigate financially perilous cases all the way.

  3. February 01, 2017

    J&J's Hip Verdict Appeal Attacks 'Inflammatory' Rhetoric

    Kicking off their appeal of a massive bellwether trial verdict, DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. and parent company Johnson & Johnson have told the Fifth Circuit that five hip-replacement patients' defect claims should never have reached a jury, nor should that jury have heard "inflammatory" and "prejudicial" statements.

  4. December 02, 2016

    Huge Verdicts Won't Spur Settlement Talks In J&J Hip MDL

    Although a Texas federal jury hit Johnson & Johnson with a more than $1 billion verdict in the latest bellwether trial over the company's Pinnacle hip implants, fruitful settlement talks aren't likely to happen before the Fifth Circuit weighs in on J&J's lengthy list of complaints about trial rulings, MDL experts say.

  5. December 01, 2016

    3rd J&J Hip Implant Bellwether Delivers $1B Verdict

    A Texas federal jury on Thursday found Johnson & Johnson's DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. unit liable for more than $1.04 billion in a six-plaintiff bellwether trial targeting metal-shedding artificial hips that are part of its Pinnacle line, dwarfing the $150 million verdict J&J is on the hook for after a previous bellwether.

  6. November 30, 2016

    Plaintiffs Seek Big Punitives In 3rd J&J Hip Implant Trial

    In closing arguments after a two-month bellwether trial over a Johnson & Johnson unit's hip implants, six plaintiffs in the multidistrict litigation asked a Texas federal jury Wednesday to hit the company with a punitive award large enough to force it to change its ways.

  7. November 08, 2016

    10 Cases Picked For Next Bellwether In J&J Artificial Hip MDL

    A Texas federal judge on Tuesday selected 10 cases for the next bellwether trial in the multidistrict litigation over Johnson & Johnson's metal-shedding artificial hips, pulling them from among thousands of cases in the sprawling litigation. 

  8. October 12, 2016

    J&J Trial's Remote Witnesses Test Limits Of Subpoena Power

    On Thursday, lawyers suing Johnson & Johnson will open a window on screen in a Texas courtroom and grill an executive a thousand miles away over the company's metal-shedding artificial hips, a controversial mode of testimony that's already piqued the Fifth Circuit's interest and that one expert calls an invitation for "court-sanctioned harassment" of executives.

  9. October 05, 2016

    J&J Demands Mistrial As DePuy Chief Takes Stand

    For the second time, Johnson & Johnson has demanded a mistrial in a bellwether targeting its metal-shedding artificial hips, amid hours of testimony Wednesday by a defiant DePuy Orthopaedics president, including on the subject of ads starring the Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski.

  10. October 04, 2016

    J&J Attacks Alternative Artificial Hip During First Cross

    Johnson & Johnson tried to impress upon a Dallas federal jury Tuesday that its metal artificial hips — the ones 8,800 people are now suing over — had once looked propitious alongside an alternate material with urgent shortcomings.