Medical device maker Zimmer Inc. is celebrating a major victory after a jury in the Northern District of Illinois cleared the defendant of liability in the first test case to go to trial over whether NexGen knee implants harmed patients (Batty v. Zimmer Inc., N.D. Ill., 1:12-cv-06279, verdict 11/6/15).
The Nov. 6 verdict, after a nearly three-week trial in the product liability suit by plaintiff Kathy L. Batty, is significant because the bellwether case was chosen by the plaintiffs as an ideal test case among hundreds pending in the federal multidistrict litigation, In re Zimmer Nexgen Knee ...
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