On June 8, 2012, California resident Sandra Hurtado filed a Zimmer knee lawsuit in CA federal court. Her case, which alleges complications resulting from Zimmer knee surgery and the NexGen implant, is slated for transfer to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of... Read More

Marina Kee filed a lawsuit against Zimmer, Inc. on August 24, 2011. Kee claimed to have experienced Zimmer knee problems, such as device loosening, which cause her pain, suffering and, eventually, required Zimmer knee revision surgery. Kee's case joined other Zimmer knee lawsuits to claim... Read More

The multidistrict Zimmer knee replacement lawsuit currently ongoing in the District Court for the Northern District if Illinois has added another plaintiff as Manhattan, Kansas resident Dinah Terrill filed a lawsuit relating to several Zimmer knee components including the Zimmer NexGen LPS-Flex, the NexGen GSF... Read More

Zimmer Inc. is a medical device manufacturer specializing in orthopedic implants. A particularly popular class of implants known as artificial joints have been the subject of a number of lawsuits relating to Zimmer knee complications. Zimmer’s NexGen knee replacement model has been the target of... Read More

On October 6, 2011, Donald D. Didrickson filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri. The Alaska resident alleges that, shortly after his Zimmer knee implant surgery he began experiencing "severe and debilitating pain." The lawsuit asserts that Didrickson's... Read More

Four lawsuits relating to the Zimmer NexGen knee replacement system have been excluded from multidistrict litigation proceedings after it was decided on the 3rd of May, 2012, that four out of 14 contested cases should be sent back to the courts in which they were... Read More

On April 27, 2012, Florida residents Ernestine and Michael Neilson filed a lawsuit citing Zimmer knee problems. Their case, which they filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri (St. Louis), took steps on January 12, 2012 to join the Zimmer... Read More

Zimmer Orthopaedics, Inc. has voiced its opposition to transferring two lawsuits to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, headquarters for the Zimmer NexGen knee MDL. Multidistrict litigation was established to consolidate similar lawsuits and streamline legal processes for a growing number... Read More