Plaintiffs suing Zimmer Holdings Inc. have filed a motion in federal court claiming that the company destroyed or lost 5500 of its Durom metal-on-metal hip implants.
The company’s alleged action has placed the plaintiffs in a Catch-22 situation. When they asked to examine samples of the Durom Cup Acetabular Component hip-replacement device, the company said it only had five new and unused devices, and submitted two to the plaintiffs for testing, the motion says. Zimmer’s experts then criticized those tests due to the small sample size, it continues.
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