Johnson & Johnson agreed to a pay $120-million settlement. The attorneys general of 46 states announced the victory today. They sued J&Jover deceptive and misleading marketing practices. The states claimed Depuy told patients the ASR XL and Pinnacle Ultamet hips would last at least 5 years. In reality, European health regulators reported that 95% of these hips never made it to the 5-year mark. Patients often needed another hip surgery to remove and replace the ASR XL and Pinnacle Ultamet implants.
2010 – DePuy announced a worldwide voluntary recall of 93,000 of its ASR hip implants. Since then Depuy has since settled thousands of lawsuits from patients who needed hip revision surgery to remove and replace the ASR metal on metal hip.
2016 – Jurors announced a record $1-billion dollar verdict against Johnson & Johnson in a Pinnacle metal on metal hip trial.
2016 – A Dallas, TX jury awarded an astounding $497.6 million dollar verdict in a Pinnacle metal-on-metal hip lawsuit.
2017 – A Dallas Federal jury issued a $247 million dollar verdict against Johnson & Johnson and DePuy Orthopedics.
I got a DePuy hip replacement back in 2015….how do you know if you have a bad one or not?