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J&J Ordered to Pay Record $1 Billion for Faulty Hip Implants
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Texas verdict continues courtroom losing stretch for company
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J&J faces almost 9,000 lawsuits over its metal-on-metal hips
Johnson & Johnson was ordered by a Texas jury to pay more than $1 billion to patients who claimed the company hid flaws in its Pinnacle artificial hips that had to be surgically removed, in J&J’s second loss linked to the implants.
Officials of J&J’s DePuy unit, which makes the Pinnacle hips, knew the devices were defective, but failed to properly warn doctors and patients about the risk they would fail, the federal jury in Dallas concluded Thursday. The verdict includes more than $30 million in actual damages for the six plaintiffs and more than $1 billion in punitive damages, according to court filings.
J&J still faces almost 9,000 lawsuits accusing the company of mishandling the metal-on-metal hips. J&J stopped selling the devices in 2013 after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration toughened artificial-hip regulations.
Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-01/j-j-ordered-to-pay-more-than-1-billion-for-pinnacle-hip-device
The FDA should be on trial for allowing these devices to be on the market. They should be accountable for approving devices that were not properly tested. Worse the FDA allowing these devices to continue being on the market for so long after they knew there was over whelming evidence patients were hurt from these devices. There are still such devices on the market!!!
Howard Sadwin Sent from my iPhone
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I can’t agree with you more!
A long time coming, but finally the criminal actions of this despicable company are coming to light. Now the other ones, guilty of the same thing, need to also be held accountable. Biomet has been sliding-by for years. They ruined my health and my very life. I settled for a meager pittance because I had a gut-feeling I would not live long enough to see them in court. 4.5 years after revisions, my chromium level remains 2.9 and I am being tested for urinary tract cancer. Hopefully, other Biomet victims will now fare better than I have.