January 25, 2019
Five Texas plaintiffs from a massive multidistrict litigation alleging Johnson & Johnson made defective metal-on-metal hip implants opened a Texas federal court trial Friday telling jurors the company knew the implants were "a disaster" but executed a plan to "get every last sale."
January 14, 2019
Johnson & Johnson will face off this week in Texas federal court against five plaintiffs who claimed they received defective hip implants and whose $151 million award in the first trial was tossed over misleading expert witness testimony.
March 17, 2016
Johnson & Johnson was hit with an eye-popping $502 million verdict Thursday in the second bellwether trial in the multidistrict litigation over allegedly defective Pinnacle hip prosthetics manufactured by its DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. unit, a major win for the plaintiffs in the litigation who had this time put forth the consolidated claims of five patients alleging problems from the devices.