November 16, 2022
One of the families suing DePuy Orthopaedics and parent company Johnson & Johnson over sales of allegedly defective hip prosthetics is mounting an effort to unseat the retired Texas judge who has been working as a special master in the multidistrict litigation for over a decade.
September 20, 2019
Johnson & Johnson's decision this year to risk a $17 billion penalty in the nation's first opioid-crisis trial added one of the most dramatic chapters yet to the company's increasingly remarkable willingness to spurn settlements and litigate financially perilous cases all the way.
February 01, 2017
Kicking off their appeal of a massive bellwether trial verdict, DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. and parent company Johnson & Johnson have told the Fifth Circuit that five hip-replacement patients' defect claims should never have reached a jury, nor should that jury have heard "inflammatory" and "prejudicial" statements.
December 02, 2016
Although a Texas federal jury hit Johnson & Johnson with a more than $1 billion verdict in the latest bellwether trial over the company's Pinnacle hip implants, fruitful settlement talks aren't likely to happen before the Fifth Circuit weighs in on J&J's lengthy list of complaints about trial rulings, MDL experts say.
December 01, 2016
A Texas federal jury on Thursday found Johnson & Johnson's DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. unit liable for more than $1.04 billion in a six-plaintiff bellwether trial targeting metal-shedding artificial hips that are part of its Pinnacle line, dwarfing the $150 million verdict J&J is on the hook for after a previous bellwether.
November 30, 2016
In closing arguments after a two-month bellwether trial over a Johnson & Johnson unit's hip implants, six plaintiffs in the multidistrict litigation asked a Texas federal jury Wednesday to hit the company with a punitive award large enough to force it to change its ways.
November 08, 2016
A Texas federal judge on Tuesday selected 10 cases for the next bellwether trial in the multidistrict litigation over Johnson & Johnson's metal-shedding artificial hips, pulling them from among thousands of cases in the sprawling litigation.
October 12, 2016
On Thursday, lawyers suing Johnson & Johnson will open a window on screen in a Texas courtroom and grill an executive a thousand miles away over the company's metal-shedding artificial hips, a controversial mode of testimony that's already piqued the Fifth Circuit's interest and that one expert calls an invitation for "court-sanctioned harassment" of executives.
October 05, 2016
For the second time, Johnson & Johnson has demanded a mistrial in a bellwether targeting its metal-shedding artificial hips, amid hours of testimony Wednesday by a defiant DePuy Orthopaedics president, including on the subject of ads starring the Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski.
October 04, 2016
Johnson & Johnson tried to impress upon a Dallas federal jury Tuesday that its metal artificial hips — the ones 8,800 people are now suing over — had once looked propitious alongside an alternate material with urgent shortcomings.