The U.S. District Judge presiding over all U.S. DePuy Pinnacle hip replacement lawsuits recently cut the amount of punitive damages awarded to plaintiffs by roughly half, from approximately $1 billion to $500 million. The judge upheld the full amount of compensatory damages. $1 billion in... Read More

In late December, a U.S. District Judge issued a court order that expands settlement claims in cases involving complications with Stryker Rejuvenate and ABG II hip implants. Donovan W. Frank, the U.S. District Judge who is hearing all the U.S. Stryker Rejuvenate and ABG II... Read More

On March 17, a Dallas, Texas jury ordered Johnson & Johnson and its DePuy subsidiary to pay $502 million to five plaintiffs who claim to have been injured by its DePuy Pinnacle hip implants. After a two-month trial, jurors determined the metal-on-metal system was defectively designed... Read More

Patients who have undergone revision surgery in an attempt to resolve complications allegedly caused by the Stryker Rejuvenate hip prosthesis may be at a higher risk for additional complications. These findings were revealed in a study recently published in the Journal of Arthroplasty. The researchers,... Read More

A new complaint has joined the RE: Stryker Rejuvenate and ABG II Hip Implant Products Liability Litigation, known as MDL No. 2441. Rosena Lyons filed a short form complaint in the Northern District of Georgia in regards to hip implant complications she claims to have... Read More

A federal jury in Georgia has awarded $11 million to plaintiff Robyn Christiansen in the first of several scheduled trials in the Wright Medical CONSERVE hip implants multidistrict litigation (MDL). As a bellwether trial, the result will likely affect the strategy that the nearly 550 remaining... Read More

On September 28, 2015, a husband and wife filed a Stryker hip replacement lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico alleging severe personal injuries suffered by the husband as a result of his experience with the defendant's modular hip replacement. The... Read More

A Kentucky man has filed Pinnacle hip lawsuit in the DePuy Pinnacle multidistrict litigation (MDL). The MDL is pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, located in Dallas. The plaintiff, Ronald G. Aller, of Harrodsburg, Mercer County, KY, seeks... Read More