Depuy Hip Implant Lawsuit

But it faces more than 9 000 more lawsuits over its pinnacle device.
Depuy hip implant lawsuit. J j ordered to pay 1 billion in depuy hip bellwether trial december 2 2016 a texas jury has found johnson johnson s depuy orthopaedics unit liable for over 1 04 billion in a 6 plaintiff bellwether trial alleging injuries from its pinnacle line of hip replacement devices. Depuy hip implant class action lawsuit update. Depuy hip lawsuit hip implants are generally expected to last up to 15 years but many patients have reported that the depuy implant systems are failing after just two or three years requiring expensive and painful second surgeries to have the implant replaced. The roughly 1 billion settlement will be distributed among plaintiffs who had to have their hip implant surgically removed after experiencing severe side effects because of the device.
Depuy asr and pinnacle hip lawsuits allege the devices caused serious complications that required revision surgery. The lawsuit was filed by west virginia attorney general patrick morrisey. Depuy agreed to pay 4 billion to settle almost 8 000 asr hip lawsuits in 2013. However its metal liner failed in approximately 14 of patients as discovered by the journal of bone and joint surgery.
Shine lawyers commenced an australian class action in the federal court of australia on september 27 2011 against depuy international pty ltd and johnson and johnson medical pty ltd. In a depuy pinnacle lawsuit update johnson johnson agreed to settle nearly 6 000 hip replacement cases against their subsidiary depuy orthopaedics last month. Judicial panel on multidistrict litigation combined the federal lawsuits in two separate litigations known as mdls. In may 2019 the company agreed to pay a settlement amount of roughly 1 billion to resolve nearly 6 000 pinnacle hip cases.
It claimed johnson johnson had deceptively marketed multiple implants including depuy asr implants. The first lawsuit in the united states against depuy orthopaedics was filed on june 15 2010. Lawyers suing over depuy s pinnacle hip implant set to receive 245m in a march 5 order a federal judge approved a special master s report allocating fees and costs to more than 40 law firms. Company officials denied morrisey s claims but settled to avoid the delay inconvenience and expense of litigation stryker rejuvenate and abg ii hip implant settlement.
Settlements and jury verdicts in depuy hip lawsuits total more than 6 billion. In the first of many depuy asr lawsuits brought against the manufacturer a los angeles jury awarded 8 3 million in damages to a retired prison guard from montana whose hip implant failed after just four years.