A Texas federal jury today slapped Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics with a $498 million judgment in favor of a quintet of plaintiffs who said the metal-on-metal Pinnacle hip implant caused their injuries.
After a 2-month trial, jurors found that the Pinnacle hips were defectively designed and that DePuy failed to warn patients about the risks. Jurors awarded about $130 million in total compensatory damages and about $360 million in punitive damages, said plaintiffs’ lead trial lawyer Mark Lanier.
“There are thousands of these cases, and J&J needs to get responsible,” Lanier said.
The 1st bellwether trial in the Pinnacle multi-district litigation went J&J’s way in October 2014, when the jury acquitted DePuy. Last month, the company won another legal victory with the dismissal of a False Claims Act lawsuit brought by a pair of British surgeons over its since-discontinued Pinnacle metal-on-metal hip implant.
A J&J spokeswoman said today that the company plans to appeal the most recent verdict.
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