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Violation Tracker Summary for Mega-Scandal

Mega-Scandal: Medical Equipment Hazards
Description: This list shows cases in which medical equipment companies paid penalties of $25 million or more cases involving defective or harmful products.
Penalty Total since 2000: $9,555,660,000
Number of Penalty Records: 25
Note: The totals here are adjusted to account for the fact that each current parent's entries may include both agency records and settlement announcements for the same case; or else a penalty covering multiple locations may be listed in the individual records for each of the facilities. They are also adjusted to reflect cases in which federal and state or local agencies cooperated and issued separate announcements of the outcome. Duplicate or overlapping penalty amounts are marked with an asterisk in the individual records list below.

Top 10 Current Parent Companies	Total Penalty $	Number of Records
Johnson & Johnson	$2,942,000,000	4
Stryker	$1,744,560,000	3
Endo International	$1,605,000,000	2
Boston Scientific Corp.	$1,315,000,000	4
Zimmer Biomet	$1,050,000,000	2
Medtronic	$278,000,000	1
Becton Dickinson	$184,000,000	1
Organon & Co.	$100,000,000	1
Platinum Equity	$90,600,000	2
Olympus	$85,000,000	1

Individual Penalty Records:

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Company	Current Parent	Current Parent Industry	Primary Offense Type	Year	Agency	Penalty Amount
DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc.	Johnson & Johnson	pharmaceuticals	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2013	private lawsuit-federal	$2,475,000,000
Stryker Corp.	Stryker	medical equipment and supplies	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2014	private lawsuit-federal	$1,425,000,000
Sulzer Medica	Zimmer Biomet	medical equipment and supplies	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2002	private lawsuit-federal	$1,000,000,000
Boston Scientific Corp.	Boston Scientific Corp.	medical equipment and supplies	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2020	private lawsuit-federal	$915,000,000
Endo International PLC	Endo International	pharmaceuticals	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2014	private lawsuit-federal	$830,000,000
Endo International PLC	Endo International	pharmaceuticals	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2017	private lawsuit-federal	$775,000,000
Johnson and Johnson	Johnson & Johnson	pharmaceuticals	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2023	CA-AG	$302,000,000
Guidant LLC	Boston Scientific Corp.	medical equipment and supplies	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2011	FDA	$296,000,000
Medtronic Inc.	Medtronic	medical equipment and supplies	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2010	private lawsuit-federal	$278,000,000
Wright Medical Group	Stryker	medical equipment and supplies	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2016	private lawsuit-federal	$240,000,000
C.R. Bard Inc.	Becton Dickinson	medical equipment and supplies	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2011	private lawsuit-federal	$184,000,000
Johnson & Johnson	Johnson & Johnson	pharmaceuticals	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2019	MULTI-AG	$120,000,000
Organon USA Inc.	Organon & Co.	pharmaceuticals	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2018	private lawsuit-federal	$100,000,000
Olympus Medical Systems Corporation	Olympus	electrical and electronic equipment	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2018	DOJ_CIVIL	$85,000,000
OtisMed Corp.	Stryker	medical equipment and supplies	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2014	FDA	$79,560,000
Boston Scientific Corp.	Boston Scientific Corp.	medical equipment and supplies	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2005	USAO	$74,000,000
LifeScan Inc.	Platinum Equity	private equity (including portfolio companies)	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2000	USAO	$60,000,000
Coloplast A/S	Coloplast A/S	medical equipment and supplies	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2019	private lawsuit-federal	$59,000,000
Biomet Inc.	Zimmer Biomet	medical equipment and supplies	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2014	private lawsuit-federal	$50,000,000
Johnson & Johnson	Johnson & Johnson	pharmaceuticals	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2002	private lawsuit-federal	$45,000,000
Pentax Medical Company			drug or medical equipment safety violation	2020	DOJ_CIVIL	$43,000,000
3M Company	3M Company	miscellaneous manufacturing	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2019	private lawsuit-federal	$32,500,000
LifeScan, Inc.	Platinum Equity	private equity (including portfolio companies)	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2003	MULTI-AG	$30,600,000
Boston Scientific Corp.	Boston Scientific Corp.	medical equipment and supplies	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2013	FDA	$30,000,000
St. Jude Medical Inc.	Abbott Laboratories	pharmaceuticals	drug or medical equipment safety violation	2021	DOJ_CIVIL	$27,000,000