Johnson & Johnson has been ordered to pay $181 million to a Houston law firm that worked on behalf of the state of Arkansas in a Medicare fraud case against the company.
A Reuters story says that payment is part of a $1.2 billion settlement the company agreed to pay Arkansas in 2012, based on the state’s claims that Johnson & Johnson downplayed the risks of the antipsychotic drug Risperdal.
Arkansas alleged ...
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Closing arguments are set to begin in a California trial concerning all-metal hip implants manufactured by Johnson & Johnson subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics, according to a story in the Los Angeles Times.
The plaintiff claims he suffered metal poisoning and other health problems from DePuy’s ASR hip replacement device, which he had implanted in 2007. Johnson & Johnson recalled about 93,000 of ...
continue reading...A New Jersey jury’s decision to award $3.35 million to a woman who was injured by one of Johnson & Johnson’s vaginal mesh implants is getting international attention, according to a story on CTV News out of Canada.
The jury’s decision came at the end of the first trial in thousands of lawsuits involving the device, manufactured by Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon division.
The vaginal mesh implant is supposed to treat urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse, a condition in which weakened ...
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Johnson & Johnson has disclosed that the government is investigating possible false claims connected to two of the company’s medical devices, Bloomberg reports.
The ASR artificial hip implant, manufactured by Johnson & Johnson subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics, has been the basis of about 10,000 lawsuits based on their tendency to break down early and leave toxic metal debris in patients’ bodies.
And at ...
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A story in the Philadelphia Inquirer about an ongoing lawsuit concerning vaginal mesh implants tells the story of a woman who is no longer able to have sex with her husband because of chronic pain from one of the devices.
The story says more than 6,000 federal lawsuits have been filed against some of the biggest manufacturers of pelvic mesh products. They’ve been consolidated in a federal court in West Virginia, ...
continue reading...A story in the Minneapolis Star Tribune notes that Johnson & Johnson’s hip joints, currently the basis of an investigation by federal prosecutors, were part of a string of 30 recalls by the company over the past three-and-a-half years.
Johnson & Johnson revealed the government investigation in a recent report to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
According to the regulatory filing, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts and the Civil Division of ...
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