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Hip Implants
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Guideposts
Wright Medical Technology Files Brief In Support Of Post-Trial Motions In Hip Implant Case
A couple of months ago, we reported on a $10 million punitive verdict in the first hip implant case to go to trial against Wright Medical Technology. Last week, Wright…
Guideposts
Federal Jury Awards $1 Million In Compensatory Damages And $10 Million In Punitive Damages In Bellwether Hip Implant Trial
In a post last month, we reported on a district court’s rulings on motions in limine in the first bellwether hip implant trial against Wright Medical Technology Incorporated. The case…
Drug & Device Law
Remand Run Amok
As we noted yesterday, Halloween may be behind us, but the scary decisions just keep on coming. Just about a month ago, we blogged about pending legislation (H.R. 3624), known as the “Fraudulent Joinder…
Drug & Device Law
The District of New Jersey Holds That You Can’t “Discover” Your Way to a Parallel Violation Claim
This post is from the non-Reed Smith side of the blog. Smith & Nephew, Inc. continues to push the plaintiffs out of court in a hip implant case pending in federal…
Drug & Device Law
A Jam Packed Hip Implant Case From the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
This post is from the non-Reed Smith side of the blog. Today’s case is no “mixed bag,” no cautionary tale. We don’t have to look for a silver lining or a rose…
Drug & Device Law
Simply Suing One More P-M-A Device
A federal court in Washington produced yet another preemption decision dismissing a complaint in the hip implant litigation. Hernandez, v. Stryker Corp., 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 171697 (W.D. Wa. Dec. 11, 2014).…
Drug & Device Law
M.D. Fla. Double Trouble on Fraudulent Joinder
What the deuce is it about today? The date is made up of two 2’s. Today is the 76th birthday of two of our favorite, though couldn’t-be-more-different, actors: Derek Jacobi (I, Claudius/Last Tango in…
Mass Torts Law Blog
First DePuy Pinnacle Hip Device Trial Begins
The trial of plaintiff Kathleen Herlihy-Paoli started last week in federal court in Dallas, Texas. The Paoli trial is the first of more than 6,000 cases filed across the country…
TortsProf Blog
Pinnacle Hip Trial is Underway; J&J Allegedly Knew of Poisoning Concern in 2001
The first of about 6,000 Pinnacle metal hip poisoning trials is underway, and plaintiff's lawyer Mark Lanier is producing e-mail evidence designed to show Johnson & Johnson knew of the…
Health Law Prof Blog
Published This Week
Valerie Gutmann Koch, Legal Issues in Prenatal and Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis, SSRN.Alexander C. Davis, Heavy Metal: Emerging Trends in Hip Implant Litigation, SSRN.Ernest Owusu-Dapaa, Medical Malpractices and the Complexity of…