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CHAMBERS v. OSTEONICS CORP.

No. 96-1742.

109 F.3d 1243 (1997)

William E. CHAMBERS and Beverly Chambers, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. OSTEONICS CORPORATION, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 3, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Boyd Hovde (argued), Indianapolis, IN, for plaintiffs-appellants.

William P. Wooden (argued), Mary Titsworth Chandler, Wooden & McLaughlin, Indianapolis, IN, for defendant-appellee.

Before WOOD, Jr., KANNE and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge.

Osteonics Corporation ("Osteonics") designed and manufactured a hip prosthesis consisting of a hip stem, femoral head and acetabular component ("hip stem") which was used to replace William E. Chambers' ("Chambers") arthritic right hip in 1985. In 1992, Chambers slipped and fell and the hip stem fractured. Surgical replacement of the fractured hip stem cost Chambers $43,000 in medical expenses, and resulted in chronic pain and...

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