ZIMMER AND NEXGEN GO ON TRIAL IN OCTOBER (Orthopedics This Week)
Zimmer recalls over 40,000 NexGen Total Knee Replacements
Lawyers in a chess match over the Zimmer NexGen Knee lawsuits
The first bellwether trial over Zimmer Holdings Inc.'s NexGen knee implant will start on October 13, 2015.
Over 1,300 lawsuits have been filed by patients implanted with knee. The device received FDA clearance in 1995 and more than 5 million implant procedures have been performed since then.
Lawsuit Consolidation
In 2011, the U.S. District Panel on Multidistrict Litigation decided to consolidate the lawsuits to ...