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 »

Jurors in Oklahoma awarded plaintiff Andrea Smith $2.5 million in compensatory damages over injuries she sustained from two defective DePuy ASR XL Acetabular hip implants. The Tulsa County jurors found in favor of Smith, after evidence was presented that the ASR metal-on-metal hip replacement was defectively designed. Jurors found for... 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 »

The first Pinnacle hip implant trial has ended in favor of the defendants. The jury in the case determined that the plaintiff’s injuries were not caused by a device defect and that manufacturers DePuy and Johnson & Johnson provided proper warning about potential risks associated with their product. The lawsuit... 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 »

About 6,400 DePuy Pinnacle hip lawsuits have been consolidated into a multidistrict litigation (MDL), which is proceeding in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas before the Honorable Judge Ed Kinkeade. For months, the involved parties have been going through pretrial discovery and selecting the bellwether cases,... Read more »

Plaintiffs who have been waiting for litigation to progress in the DePuy ASR hip MDL will begin to see settlement payments very soon. Last fall, the manufacturer of the ASR hip system agreed to a DePuy hip settlement that was estimated to pay out more than $2 billion to 8,000... Read more »