IN RE ZIMMER NEXGEN KNEE IMPLANT

MDL No. 2272. Master Docket No. 11 C 5468.

890 F.Supp.2d 896 (2012)

In re ZIMMER NEXGEN KNEE IMPLANT PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION. This Document Relates to All Cases.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

August 16, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian John Perkins , Meyers & Flowers, LLC, St. Charles, IL, Daniel Robert Lapinski , Wilentz Goldman & Spitzer, Woodbridge, NJ, Marc D. Grossman , Sanders Viener Grossman, LLP, Randi Kassan , Sanders Viener Grossman, LLP, Mineola, NY, Seth Sharrock Webb , Brown and Crouppen PC, St. Louis, MO, Tobias L. Millrood , Pogust, Braslow, Millrood, Conshohocken, PA, for Zimmer Nexgen Knee Implant Products Liability Litigation.

Peter J. Flowers , Meyers & Flowers, LLC, St. Charles, IL, for Plaintiffs/Zimmer Nexgen Knee Implant Products Liability Litigation.

Karen Beyea-Schroeder , Fleming, Nolen & Jez L.L.P., Russell S. Briggs , Fibich, Hampton, Leebron, Briggs & Josephson LLP, Houston, TX, Gordon J. Robert , Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C., New York, NY, Daniel Christopher Burke , Parker Waichman Alonso LLP, Port Washington, NY, Ronald S. Goldser , Genevieve Mary Zimmerman , Zimmerman Reed, P.L.L.P., Timothy J. Becker , Johnson Becker PLLP, Holly Dolejsi , Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P., Anthony J. Nemo , Meshbesher & Spence, Ltd., Minneapolis, MN, Doug Grubbs , Douglas C. Monsour , The Monsour Law Firm, Longview, TX, Laura L. Singletary , Richard J. Arsenault , Neblett Beard & Arsenault, Alexandria, LA, Sheila M. Bossier , Bossier & Associates, PLLC, Jackson, MS, Christopher Paulos , Levin Papantonio Thomas Mitchell Rafferty & Proctor, P.A., Pensacola, FL, Charles R. Houssiere, III , Hodges, Loizzi, Eisenhammer, Rodick & Kohn, Arlington Heights, IL, James Kent Emison , Phyllis A. Norman , Langdon & Emison, Lexington, MO, Paul Lee Warren , Melissa Warner Scoggins , Warren & Associates PLC, Norfolk, VA, Jason J. Thompson , Sommers Schwartz, P.C., Southfield, MI, Joseph Anthony Osborne , Babbitt Johnson Osborne & LeClainche, West Palm Beach, FL, James H. Cook , Dutton, Braun, Staack & Hellman, P.L.C., Waterloo, IA, Benjamin Creedy , Murphy Taylor Siemens & Elliott PC, St. Joseph, MO, Don K. Ledgard , Capretz & Associates, Newport Beach, CA, Susan E. Hamm , Law Office of Susan E. Hamm, Shreveport, LA, Robert W. Hallack , Baton Rouge, LA, Daniel Jay King , Law Offices of Daniel King, Woodland Hills, CA, Wilfred K. Wright, Jr. , Wright Law PLC, Claremore, OK, Robert J. Radice , Horas and Radice, L.L.C., St. Louis, MO, Douglas E. Griffith , Adam Lee Grundvig , Kesler & Rust, Salt Lake City, UT, David E. Pitcher , Heygood, Orr & Pearson, Dallas, TX, Navan Ward, Jr. , Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., Montgomery, AL, Peter Kristopher Janczyk , Edelstein Martin & Nelson, Philadelphia, PA, Edward C. Lawhead , Schreiner Malloy & Etzler PC, Highland, IN, Jesus Tacorda , The Veen Firm, P.C., San Francisco, CA, Blake Armstrong Shuart , Hutton & Hutton Law Firm, L.L.C., Wichita, KS, Steven M. Johnson , The Johnson Law Firm, Fort Worth, TX, Craig M. Murphy , Murphy & Murphy Law Offices, Las Vegas, NV, Alton C. Haynes , Seth Letterman Ellis , Haynes Studnicka Kahan O'Neill & Poulakidas LLC, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs.

Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, pro se.

David R. Langevin, pro se.

Donald C. Waterman, pro se.

James Krammes, pro se.

Plaintiffs' Counsel, pro se.

Patricia Monroe, pro se.

Norma M. Blake, pro se.

Thomas J. Blackman, Jr., pro se.

Charlton C. Fields, pro se.

Christopher A. Dewitt, pro se.

Betty Weldon, pro se.

Thomas Barnes, pro se.

Douglas Duerr, pro se.

Christine Osborn, pro se.

Loretta Albert, pro se.

James T. Johnson, pro se.

Joseph H. Yeager, Jr. , Faegre Baker Daniels LLP, Indianapolis, IN.

April E. Sellers , Faegre Baker Daniels LLP, Indianapolis, IN, James Stephen Bennett , Faegre Baker Daniels LLP, Fort Wayne, IN, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

REBECCA R. PALLMEYER, District Judge.

Defendants Zimmer, Inc. and its affiliates ("Defendants" or "Zimmer") are manufacturers of the Zimmer NexGen knee implant devices that are the subject of this multidistrict litigation ("MDL"). In this motion, Defendants seek authority under certain conditions to contact prospective expert witnesses who also happen to be treating physicians for several Plaintiffs whose cases are consolidated...

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