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 »

After a proactive Superior Court Judge in Bergen County, New Jersey ordered opposing attorneys in the ongoing Stryker Rejuvenate and ABG II modular hip systems product liability litigation to submit to a mediation program in an attempt to resolve some of the many Stryker hip lawsuits before going to trial, the... Read more »

Minnesota-based medical device company Medtronic has agreed to pay $9.9 million to the federal government in order to settle allegations arising under the False Claims Act – a federal statute designed to incentivize integrity and undermine the efforts of those fraudulently submitting invoices for payment under government contracts. The False... Read more »

Research recently presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons has shed new light on the reasons behind a large proportion of surgical revision procedures in patients who have previously undergone total knee replacements. The study was undertaken in an effort to explain the increase in... Read more »