Ouch! J&J pays $1B to resolve the majority of the Pinnacle-Hip lawsuits

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J&J Pays About $1 Billion to Resolve Pinnacle-Hip Suits (Bloomberg)
Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay about $1 billion to resolve most lawsuits claiming it sold defective metal-on-metal hips that ultimately had to be removed, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
With the agreement, J&J has now resolved more than 95 percent of the 6,000 cases in which surgeons extracted the Pinnacle implants because of defects that left patients unable to walk and in pain, according to two people familiar with the settlements. They spoke on the condition of anonymity bec...

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