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Hip Implants
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Drug & Device Law
Court of Appeals Applies Law of Would-Be Filing Court in Fee Dispute in Hip Implant Case Filed Directly Into MDL
Last week, along with many of you, we attended the ACI Drug and Medical Device Conference in New York City. The quality of the presentations was uniformly high, and the…
Mass Torts Law Blog
Billion Dollar Verdict in DePuy Pinnacle Hip Replacement Lawsuit
Huge Victory in Hip Replacement Lawsuit Despite multiple attempts by Johnson & Johnson (J&J) to delay and dismiss the third DePuy Pinnacle hip implant bellwether trial, the case moved forward…
Drug & Device Law
Buckle Up: The Jury Is Out in the Pinnacle Hip Implant MDL’s Third Bellwether Trial
This post comes from the Cozen O'Connor side of the blog. After two months, the third bellwether trial in the Pinnacle Hip Implant MDL is coming to an end. The…
Drug & Device Law
Hip Implant Off-Label Promotion Follow-Up
This post is from the non-Reed Smith side of the blog. When we last talked about Shuker v. Smith & Nephew PLC, No. 13-6158 (E.D. Pa.), it was with high…
Mass Torts Law Blog
Third DePuy Bellwether Trial Goes Forward
The third bellwether trial in the DePuy Orthopedics Pinnacle Hip Implant Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) is set to commence in the United States District Court, Northern District of Texas. The last…
Drug & Device Law
The Pinnacle Hip Implant MDL Continues—with a Motion for a Continuance
This post comes from the non-Reed Smith side of the blog. We’ve been posting for a few months about the procedural and evidentiary controversies that have arisen in the Pinnacle…
Drug & Device Law
The Pinnacle Hip Implant MDL Court Finally Enters Judgment
This comes from the non-Reed Smith side of the blog. Just over two weeks ago, the defendants in the Pinnacle Hip Implant MDL petitioned the Fifth Circuit for a writ…
Drug & Device Law
Georgia MDL Court Muddles Utah Law
We aren’t going to mince words today. We don’t like Christiansen v. Wright Medical Technology Inc., MDL 2329, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 46409 (N.D. Ga. Apr. 5, 2016). It is…
Guideposts
Federal District Court Slashes Punitive Award In Hip Implant Case
A couple of months ago, I did a post about the post-trial motions in the first trial arising out of alleged defects in Wright Medical Technology’s hip implant device. On…
Drug & Device Law
Trouble in Texas?: The Latest Pinnacle Hip Implant Trial Goes to the Jury
This post does not come from the Reed Smith side of the blog. After two grueling months, the second bellwether trial in the Pinnacle Hip Implant MDL has gone to…