J&J hip implants News

J&J Begins Settling Pinnacle Hip Defect Lawsuits

Johnson & Johnson has begun settling consumers’ claims that it sold artificial hips knowing they were defective, marking the first settlements in the seven-year-old litigation. A federal judge in Texas overseeing the cases said about 3,300 of 10,000 “have settled …

Pinnacle Hip Implants Jury Told J&J Marketing Ran ‘Amok’

Johnson & Johnson’s bid to convince doctors the metal-on-metal version of its Pinnacle hip implants were safe amounted to “marketing run amok,” a lawyer told jurors in the first case over the devices to go to trial. J&J’s DePuy unit …