Court Releases Updated List of Pending Cases in DePuy Pinnacle MDL

DALLAS - The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas has issued an updated list of cases coordinated in the DePuy Pinnacle multidistrict litigation, but the court continues to add cases to the MDL that was assigned to District Judge James Kinkeade in May. In re: DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc. Pinnacle Hip Implant Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 3:11-md-02244-K (N.D. Texas).

Judge Kinkeade included 213 cases in the 18-page list filed on July 20; nine additional cases were added by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation in two separate conditional transfer orders filed on July 21.

The JPML assigned …