A Boca Raton attorney won a $2 million award for a man who suffered metal poisoning after hip implant surgery.

The implant manufacturer, Zimmer Inc., never ran corrosion testing on the full device, which included head, neck and stem components, a New Mexico judge found March 31. Instead, the company tested the head-neck junction and the neck-stem junction separately.

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