Bonnie Johnson, 84, Syracuse passed away on Sept. 22, 2015, at Greencroft of Goshen. She was born on Aug. 27, 1931, in Crown Point, to Walter and Hazel (Benner) Graff. On June 18, 1949, she married Donald Johnson who preceded her in 1995. She was a member of the Grace Bible Baptist Church. Bonnie is …read more.

When Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) agreed to a $2.5 billion settlement to close some 8,000 cases over its metal-on-metal hip implants, about 1/3 of that money went to the lawyers and legal teams representing the cases. Lawyers took an average of $90,000 of each patient’s $250,000 award, according to a New York Times report, a …read more.

In its largest-ever settlement of a Medicaid fraud case, the state of Indiana will receive nearly $17 million from Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries to resolve lawsuits alleging the pharmaceutical manufacturer engaged in illegal off-label marketing and payment of kickbacks to promote its drugs Risperdal and Invega, among others. The repayment by Johnson & …read more.

According to a recent report, Johnson & Johnson, the world’s largest seller of health-care products, has discussed paying more than $3 billion to settle lawsuits over its recalled hip implants. J&J’s Warsaw-based DePuy unit recalled 93,000 implants in 2010 – including 37,000 in the U.S. – after more than 12 percent failed within five years. …read more.

DePuy Orthopaedics has announced that the FDA granted a supplemental pre-market approval to use special software to customize its Sigma RP knee implant for individual patients physiologies. MassDevice reports the Johnson & Johnson subsidiary said the federal watchdog agency approved the use of its Trumatch Personalized Solutions system with its Sigma RP knee implant. The …read more.

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) is pulling the plug on its troubled metal-on-metal hip implant business, effective Aug. 31. In a statement released by JNJ subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics, the healthcare giant said it would halt all sales of its Ultamet metal-on-metal articulation and Complete ceramic-on-metal acetabular hip system because of lower physician adoption rates and a …read more.

DePuy executives are in a Los Angeles, Calif., courtroom battling a lawsuit that could launch literally thousands more civil cases against the orthopedic device maker. The lawsuit – Sandra Ellis, Loren Kransky, et al. v. DePuy Inc., et al. – is the first against DePuy to go before a jury. It accuses the company, headquartered …read more.

One year after Johnson & Johnson pulled 93,000 metal hip implants from the market, the company internally estimated that 37 percent of the devices would fail within 4.6 years, according to newly unsealed court records. J&J faces 10,000 lawsuits over its ASR hips, which it pulled in August 2010 after citing U.K. joint registry data …read more.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D10Jt_4Oy5g]   Sept. 25, 1994, is a day Bonnie Sue Johnson will never forget. It was early that morning when Johnson’s life was saved by a firefighter that, until Thursday night, she simply knew as her “guardian angel.” In an exclusive interview with StaceyPageOnline.com, Johnson recalled waking up at 7:23 a.m. to her then boyfriend …read more.