A jury in Los Angeles awarded close to $9.2 million Friday to a man who claimed he was injured by a Zimmer Durom Cup implant. Jurors found Zimmer liable on claims including negligent design defect and failure to warn of any danger following the three-week trial in Los Angeles Superior Court, Reuters reports. Jurors ordered the orthopedic maker to pay the plaintiff, 59-year-old Gary Kline, $153,000 in medical costs plus $6.4 million in future non-economic damages and $2.6 million in past non-economic damages, Reuters reported Tuesday, citing Kline’s attorneys. The Durom Cup hip device was implanted in about 13,000 patients before it was withdrawn from the U.S. market in 2008. Kline received the implant in 2007 but had it removed a year later. A trial for another plaintiff in the Los Angeles case is set for October, according to the National Law Journal, while a seperate trial against Zimmer, begun July 20, is underway in St. Clair County Circuit Court. Claims over allegedly defective implants against other orthopedic companies in recent years have seen DePuy reach more than $2.5 billion in settlements and Stryker Corp. more than $1 billion.
