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March 22, 2006—Greg Monforton and Partners has filed a $210 million class
action lawsuit in connection with illegally harvested and unscreened human tissue and bone used in transplant
surgery.
The suit, filed in Windsor, Ontario, names Clarence Renaud as representative plaintiff of
the proposed class of plaintiffs. Mr. Renaud allegedly received illegally harvested and unscreened
bone and tissue as part of a routine back surgery at Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital in Windsor on
April 27, 2003.
Clarence Renaud v. Zimmer Dental Medical Incorporated
Ontario Superior Court of Justice
Proceeding Under the Class Proceedings Act, 1992
Statement of Claim 
Health Canada warned in October 2005 that 125 people across the country received human bone,
skin and tendons that were not properly screened.
Hotel Dieu Hospital reported that 21 people who underwent procedures at their hospital would
need to be tested for infectious diseases. The potentially tainted tissues were used in surgeries
performed between January 2003 and October 2005.
In a lawsuit filed in the United States, one woman has alleged that she contracted syphilis
after receiving tainted tissue from BioMedical Tissue Services.
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