Today and yesterday, patients from Arizona, Connecticut and Ohio filed lawsuits against Zimmer Inc., the nation’s largest producer of orthopedic devices, for alleged defective hip implants manufactured and sold by Zimmer under the name Durom Cup.

New York Times highlights the frayed relationship between top surgeon Dr. Richard A. Berger and Zimmer Holdings, the orthopedic implant maker.

Franklin Tennessee resident, Walter Thomas, filed a personal injury lawsuit against Zimmer Inc., manufacturer of his Durom Cup artificial hip.

National plaintiff law firm Lieff Cabraser has filed separate personal injury lawsuits against Zimmer Holdings, the nation’s largest producer of orthopedic devices, for multiple surgeries and debilitating injuries plaintiffs suffered due to the defective Durom Acetabular Component, an artificial hip socket known as the Durom Cup

The New York Times reports a Missouri hospital has overradiated 76 patients, the vast majority with brain cancer, during a five-year period because its powerful new radiation equipment had been set up incorrectly — even with a representative of the manufacturer watching as it was done.

In March 2009, Medtronic disclosed that at least 13 Sprint Fidelis patients may have died, including four patients whose deaths were related to efforts by doctors to surgically remove the product. In February 2010, the Wall Street Journal reported that the FDA database includes at least 12 additional deaths allegedly linked to the recalled device.

The world’s biggest maker of heart stents, has agreed to pay $22 million to settle allegations that the company’s Guidant unit used clinical studies to pay kickbacks to doctors for using its products

Tens of thousands of patients may be at risk of suffering repetitive and devastating electrical shocks from the defective Sprint Fidelis manufactured by Medtronic, Inc.

Two new studies find shortfalls in the Food and Drug Administration’s approval process for heart devices such as pacemakers and stents

First sold in the United States in 2006, the Zimmer Durom cup was implanted in more than 12,000 patients prior to its recall in in July 2008 due to a high failure rate. Now patients are filing lawsuits against Zimmer for being forced to undergo a second hip replacement surgery.