Hip replacement surgery lawsuits

 Nick had hip replacement surgery a few years ago.  Since he was fairly young and athletic, his doctor recommended  using Zimmer Metasul Durom hip replacement cups for the surgery.  These were specially designed for younger people who are likely to outlive a conventional hip prosthesis.  Since then we’ve been hearing that there are a lot of medical and legal issues on zimmer durom cup.  Apparently there is a significant failure rate that was unexpected!

Well, of course there has been a lot of scrambling going on by Zimmer, trying to get releases signed by the patients, to release them from any liability if anything should happen to the cup down the road.  Zimmer is trying to lay the blame of the durom cups failures on surgeon error.  Nick told me that he is going to get as much information as he can about the issues and find a durom lawyer to represent him in the event that he needs to file a durom lawsuit.

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