Five plaintiffs have won a $502 million verdict against Johnson & Johnson in a bellwether trial concerning the company's DePuy Pinnacle metal-on-metal hip replacement devices.
Here are five things to know:
1. The jury verdict for $142 million compensatory and $360 million punitive damages followed 37 days of testimony.
2. The trial, which consolidated cases involving five separate plaintiffs who are Texas residents, began Jan. 8.
3. The lawsuits, including those of more than 7,000 plaintiffs nationwide in the multidistrict litigation, claim that the DePuy implants were defective and caused metal debris to enter into patients' bloodstreams. This allegedly caused severe injuries and sometimes led to revision surgery.
4. Plaintiffs' attorneys also claim to have discovered several instances in which physicians lied in medical clinical testing of the devices and forged consent forms for patients who were using the product to lie about the results the patients experienced with the product.
5. The DePuy Pinnacle hip implants have not been recalled.