J&J DePuy Pinnacle Metal Hip. On the heels of the latest plaintiff multi-million dollar DePuy hip trial verdict, Johnson & Johnson (J&J), the world’s largest pharmaceutical company and medical device maker, and its DePuy subsidiary were back in federal court again.
J&J and its DePuy unit, which makes the artificial hips, recently argued in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that the verdict should be reversed because there was insufficient evidence that the hips were defectively designed and deceptively marketed.