The Zimmer defendants have won
the first bellwether trial in the NexGen knee MDL. Late last Friday, an
Illinois jury reached a defense verdict in favor of Zimmer Inc.
The trial lasted three-and-a-half weeks and began on October 13th in the U.S.
District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Hon. Rebecca R. Pallmeyer
presided over the trial.
The first trial was the plaintiff’s
side's first pick from the pool of filed cases in the MDL. The next trial,
scheduled for early next year, will be picked by the defendant’s lawyers.
