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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 …

Trial Plaintiff Says J&J Hips Defective, Company Denies Liability

Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy unit was well aware of defects in its all-metal hips when plaintiff Loren Kransky was implanted with one of the devices in 2007, lawyers for the 65-year-old man said in closing trial arguments. The lawsuit filed …

Johnson & Johnson Recalls More Metal Hip Implants

Johnson & Johnson, the subject of thousands of lawsuits stemming from the 2010 recall of its ASR all-metal hip implants, last month recalled a second type of metal hip component that it sold outside of the United States. J&J’s DePuy …