Johnson & Johnson's DePuy wins first trial over Pinnacle hips

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Johnson & Johnson's DePuy wins first trial over Pinnacle hips

By Jessica Dye and Lisa Maria Garza NEW YORK/DALLAS (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson was found not liable by a Texas jury on Thursday in the first case to go to trial over whether Pinnacle hip implants made by the company's DePuy Orthopedics unit were defective. The test case had high stakes for the pharmaceutical giant, which is hoping to avoid a replay of a $2.5 billion settlement it agreed to last year for a different metal-on-metal hip device. ...

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