Patients Bear the Pain of Zimmer Hip Cup Defect
There is no way around the fact that patients bear the pain caused by the Zimmer hip cup defect. Zimmer, however, should bear the costs. At the Girardi | Keese law firm in California, our trial attorneys are representing Zimmer hip replacement patients in a lawsuit against Zimmer.
Patients have to go through the hip replacement process again.
Because Zimmer rushed their Durom Cup hip replacement to market without field testing and without providing proper training to surgeons, many hip replacement patients had even more pain after surgery than they had before. At the Girardi | Keese law firm in California, our lawyers have talked with many patients and their doctors in preparing the Zimmer hip cup defect lawsuit.
Hip replacement surgery is a long process. Going through it once is difficult. To go through it again for the same hip causes extensive rehabilitation and recovery that should never have been necessary. Each surgery requires time in the hospital and time in an extended care facility or at home for rehabilitation.
When a Zimmer defective hip implant fails, the pain is worse than the pain that led to the surgery. Another replacement is essential. The doctor must go back in, take out the hip cup, replace it and close the wound. The patient must again go through a massive rehabilitation effort.
The right thing to do: Pay for the expense of another hip replacement surgery.
Zimmer does not want to accept responsibility for their negligence. At Girardi | Keese, our personal injury lawyers have experience facing medical device companies in court and winning for our clients. We are prepared to take Zimmer to trial.
For more information about the Zimmer hip replacement lawsuit, contact us.
