(March 17, 2016, 2:06 PM EDT) -- DALLAS — A Texas federal jury on March 17 returned a $497 million verdict in a five-case Pinnacle hip multidistrict litigation bellwether trial, according to plaintiff attorney W. Mark Lanier of the Lanier Firm in Houston (Margaret Aoki v. Johnson & Johnson Services, Inc., et al., No. 13-1071, Jacqueline Christopher v. Johnson & Johnson Services, Inc., et al., No. 14-194, Donald Greer v. Johnson & Johnson Services, Inc., et al., No. 12-1672, Susan Klusmann v. Johnson & Johnson Services, Inc., et al., No. 11-2800, and Robert Peterson v. Johnson & Johnson Services, Inc., et al., No. 11-1941, N.D. Texas, Dallas Div.)....