JPML Separates Pinnacle Hip Implant Claims from Transferred Wright Medical Case



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  • Order


WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has conditionally transferred a California hip implant case to the newly created Wright Medical Technology MDL in Georgia, but separated and assigned DePuy Pinnacle claims in the same lawsuit to the Pinnacle MDL pending in Texas. Elston v. Wright Medical Technologies, et al., No. 3:12-0134 (S.D. Calif.).

The panel noted in its joint March 6 Conditional Transfer Order (MDL No. 2244 CTO-57 and MDL No. 2329 CTO-2) that since the Wright Medical Technology Inc. implant MDL was created in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia on Feb. …






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