Todd Lovelace and Christine Walker have filed separate personal injury lawsuits against Zimmer Holdings, the nation’s largest producer of orthopedic devices. Lovelace and Walker seek respective damages against Zimmer for multiple surgeries and debilitating injuries they suffered due to the defective Durom Acetabular Component, an artificial hip socket known as the Durom Cup, which is manufactured and sold by Zimmer. First on the U.S. market in 2006, the Durom Cup was implanted in 12,000 patients.

Todd Lovelace, a 45-year old truck driver from Elizabethtown, Kentucky, received a Zimmer Durom Cup in May 2008 as part of hip replacement surgery on his left hip. After months of great pain, agony, difficulty walking and bearing weight, he was compelled to undergo a second surgery to remove the defective cup in December 2008. Lovelace stated, “It’s ruined my life. I’m in chronic pain and have lost my job as a result of this defective device.”

In December 2007, the Durom Cup was implanted in Christine Walker, a 53-year old former registered nurse from West Palm Beach, Florida. She too suffered months of great pain and agony, necessitating her to stop working. In December 2008, her Durom Cup was removed. “I believed that after my hip replacement I would return to my career in nursing and to my active lifestyle with my husband of thirty-seven years. Instead, I live every minute of every day in pain and worry, with the loss of my career, how much more I am going to lose.”

“The complaint estimates that upwards of 24% of patients that received the Durom Cup will be forced to undergo revision surgery,” plaintiffs’ counsel Wendy R. Fleishman commented. “It is long past the time for Zimmer to formally recall the Durom Cup and take responsibility for the extreme pain and injuries its defective product has caused thousands of patients across America.”

Learn more about Zimmer Durom Hip defects and the rights of people injured by the Durom Cup.