Zimmer Hip Recall: Artificial Hip Recipient Charges Defect Has Caused Extreme Pain And Hardship
Franklin Tennessee resident, Walter Thomas, filed a personal injury lawsuit against Zimmer Inc., manufacturer of his Durom Cup artificial hip.
Walter Thomas, a 63-year-old retired manufacturing plant supervisor, may be left with a permanent limp, he alleges in a personal injury lawsuit filed against Zimmer Inc, the manufacturer of his faulty artificial hip implant.
Thomas, a 63-year-old retired manufacturing plant manager, endured agonizing pain for months, many hip dislocations, two revision surger
ies, and has been left with a potentially lasting limp due to Zimmer’s allegedly defective hip implant.
“This has been a very trying time in my life for me and my family,” Thomas stated. “When my artificial hip was implanted in May of 2007, I was hoping for a quick recovery. Never did I think that I would have to endure two additional surgeries, three hip dislocations which resulted in trips to the Emergency Room, several weeks of physical therapy, and the frightening prospect of being permanently handicapped because of Zimmer’s faulty product. To me, this lawsuit is about holding Zimmer accountable for what they did to me.”
“Zimmer’s belated suspension of sales of its defective product was too little, too late for Mr. Thomas and for countless other folks, who needed safe and effective hip implants to restore their ability to sit, stand and walk without excruciating pain” stated Thomas’ attorney Mark P. Chalos of national law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP.
“Now, those same men and women suffer from pain worse than before the ‘fix’ to their hips, and some, like Mr. Thomas have permanent limps. Zimmer should do right by Mr. Thomas and his family.”
Learn more about Durom Cup injuries and the rights of victims.
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