Plaintiffs: Defense Settling Up To 60 Percent Of Pinnacle MDL Hip Cases

(November 28, 2018, 2:21 PM EST) -- DALLAS — Saying that DePuy Synthes is settling perhaps as many as 60 percent of the 9,760 Pinnacle metal-on-metal hip implant multidistrict litigation cases pending against it, the Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee (PEC) on Nov. 26 asked the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas to increase the preliminary common benefit holdback from the current 10 percent to an amount the court deems appropriate (In Re:  DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc., Pinnacle Hip Implant Products Liability Litigation, MDL Docket No. 2244, No. 11-md-2244, N.D. Texas, Dallas Div.)....

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