4th Bellwether Over J&J Metal Hip Implants Kicks Off - Law360

Mark Lanier, the outstanding Texas trial lawyer is taking another whack at Johnson & Johnson.  The pharma giant is battling 9,000 hip implant cases, pelvic mesh cases, and talc cases.  

4th Bellwether Over J&J Metal Hip Implants Kicks Off - Law360

This is the fourth bellwether trial involving the Pinnacle line of metal-on-metal hip implants. The first involved a single plaintiff from Montana and ended in a defense win. The second, involving five plaintiffs from Texas, ended in a $502 million verdict that was reduced to about $150 million. And the third, involving six plaintiffs from California, ended in December with a more than $1 billion verdict, later reduced to about $543 million.