JNJ to Pay Almost $1 Billion to Settle Hip Lawsuits | 合法醫療器材資訊網

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Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay almost $1 billion to resolve the majority of the outstanding lawsuits that claim that its Pinnacle hip implants were defective according to a report by Bloomberg.

This settlement was originally announced in February by plaintiffs’ attorney Mark Lanier after a jury was empaneled to hear the latest Pinnacle lawsuit. The case was a consolidated lawsuit that was brought by five Pinnacle hip implant recipients in Texas. In Re DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. Pinnacle Hip Implant Products Liability Litigation[1], 11-md-2244, U.S District Court, Northern District of Texas (Dallas).

This settlement resolves more than 95% of the 6,000 lawsuits where surgeons extracted the Pinnacle implants because of defects that left patients unable to walk and in pain. The $1 billion total includes a prior settlement for more than $400 million. There are still almost 4,500 pendin...