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Three DePuy Pinnacle Hip Trials Yield One Hundred Million Per Plaintiff
Clay Hodges

November 27, 2017

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In the last three DePuy Pinnacle artificial hip bellwether trials, three juries awarded the following amounts of money: $502,000,000.00, $1,041,311,648.17, and $247,000,000.00. That’s a total of $1.79 billion dollars. The juries awarded plaintiffs compensatory damages (or actual damages) and punitive damages (to “punish” the defendant companies). Remember that these juries settled on these huge amounts…

Depuy Pinnacle Artificial Hips: A Timeline of Profits, Injuries, Lawsuits
Clay Hodges

July 7, 2017

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Last week I wrote a timeline on the key events surrounding the failure of the Depuy ASR artificial hip. Today I want to take a similar look at the Depuy Pinnacle artificial hip. The Pinnacle was supposed to be the ASR’s more active and athletic brother. But it didn’t turn out that way. 1995: Study…

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