Damages in a Pinnacle hip implant lawsuit have been reduced in accordance with state law but the verdict remains the same, a judge overseeing coordination of Pinnacle hip injury lawsuits has determined. The original jury award of $500 million was reduced to $151 million for the five plaintiffs that were... Read more »

Measuring errors at a manufacturing plant in England have left thousands of hip implant recipients vulnerable to the possibility of injury and early implant failure. DePuy Orthopedics has admitted errors in the manufacturing of some of its metal-on-metal implants at a Yorkshire factory and now faces questions from patients and... Read more »

A resident of Contra Costa County, California has filed a class action Depuy hip lawsuit against DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc., Johnson & Johnson, John Muir Health, and the doctor who performed his Pinnacle hip implant surgery. John Muldoon claims that a class action lawsuit is called for because the class is believed to... Read more »

A plaintiff who filed a DePuy hip lawsuit in New Jersey alleges her Pinnacle hip system left her with severe injuries, permanent debility and concerns over additional revision surgeries in the future. The plaintiff’s husband is also listed on the complaint, claiming he has lost the “society, companionship and conjugal relationship”... Read more »

U.S. District Judge David Katz has extended the deadline for plaintiffs with DePuy hip lawsuits in the federal court system, who have not had their recalled hip removed or replaced to move forward with their claim. He has indicated that initial discovery must be complete by April 30, in cases that... Read more »

Johnson & Johnson and their DePuy Orthopaedics subsidiary recently announced that they would extend the terms of a previously agreed upon settlement deal pertaining to DePuy hip lawsuits. The settlement deal previously applied to approximately 8,000 DePuy ASR plaintiffs, who had alleged that their hip replacement devices failed prematurely and... Read more »

A revised case management order has extended the deadline for DePuy ASR hip lawsuits whose plaintiffs had not yet undergone revision surgery and had previously been ordered to either accept a dismissal of their case or complete the discovery phase of their lawsuit within 90 days of the deadline. The... Read more »

Another DePuy Pinnacle hip lawsuit has been filed over metallosis (or metal poisoning), an alleged result of the flawed hip replacement construction which caused the plaintiff discomfort and damage and necessitated follow-up surgery. The complaint contends that the defendant, DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc. (a subsidiary corporation of Johnson & Johnson) produced... Read more »

A federal judge presiding over a DePuy hip implant lawsuit has determined that the case will not be sent back to Nevada state court, despite the plaintiff’s jurisdictional arguments, finding that a medical device supplier included as a defendant in the suit was fraudulently added to the complaint. The ruling... Read more »

Proceedings for the first DePuy Pinnacle hip trial began on September 2 in Dallas, under the direction of U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade. This is the first trial involving allegations that the metal-on-metal hip implant poisoned patients, due to its defective design causing metal debris to enter into patients’ bloodstreams.... Read more »