Pinnacle Metal-on-Metal (MoM) hip implants are designed, manufactured, marketed, distributed, and sold by Johnson and Johnson and Depuy Synthes Sales, Inc. Plaintiffs contend that risks of use of this product include heavy metal poisoning to a patient’s tissue and bloodstream, causing tissue and bone death. On May 17, 2023, the New Jersey Supreme Court designated this litigation as multicounty litigation and assigned the handling of all pending and future state cases involving these components to Bergen County to be handled by Judge Rachelle L. Harz through May 31, 2023, and Superior Court Judge Gregg A. Padovano effective June 1, 2023.