{"id":7535,"date":"2019-11-25T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/?p=7535"},"modified":"2019-12-08T14:09:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T14:09:50","slug":"u-s-court-of-appeals-reverses-dismissal-of-zimmer-hip-device-injury-case-based-on-when-plaintiff-knew-of-defect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-of-appeals-reverses-dismissal-of-zimmer-hip-device-injury-case-based-on-when-plaintiff-knew-of-defect\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Court of Appeals Reverses Dismissal of Zimmer Hip Device Injury Case Based on When Plaintiff Knew of Defect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marilyn Adams had a long history of hip pain. In September 2010, she was diagnosed with advanced degenerative arthritis.<\/p>\n<p>Her orthopedic surgeon recommended a total hip replacement. She was told that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zimmerbiomet.com\/medical-professionals\/hip\/product\/ml-taper-hip-system.html\">Zimmer hip device<\/a> implanted in January 2011 could be expected to last 15-20 years.<\/p>\n<p>However, in late 2012, Adams started experiencing severe hip pain. The cause was not clear.\u00a0 Her February 2015 revision hip surgery revealed the Zimmer implant had been discharging excessive and potentially toxic metal debris into Adams&#8217;s hip.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-of-appeals-reverses-dismissal-of-zimmer-hip-device-injury-case-based-on-when-plaintiff-knew-of-defect\/#more-7535\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marilyn Adams had a long history of hip pain. In September 2010, she was diagnosed with advanced degenerative arthritis. Her orthopedic surgeon recommended a total hip replacement. She was told that the Zimmer hip device implanted in January 2011 could be expected to last 15-20 years. However, in late 2012, Adams started experiencing severe hip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[94,75,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hip-replacement-defect-cases","category-product-defect-litigation","category-product-liability"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>U.S. Court of Appeals Reverses Dismissal of Zimmer Hip Device Injury Case Based on When Plaintiff Knew of Defect &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Marilyn Adams had a long history of hip pain. 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