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A private equity consortium raises its bid to $11.4 billion after a top shareholder balked.
June 8, 2007
Business
Interpore International Inc., a medical device company based in Irvine, has been sued by a rival firm for allegedly stealing technology used in spinal implant surgery.
Jan. 29, 2003
Medical device maker Medtronic Inc. said Wednesday that a California judge had barred the company from selling a redesigned product that is the subject of a patent lawsuit filed by Biomet Inc.
May 26, 2005
Zimmer to buy Biomet amid flurry of billion-dollar medical deals
April 24, 2014
Orthopedic products maker Zimmer Holdings on Thursday announced it will acquire Biomet Inc. in a deal valued at $13.35 billion, including assumption of debt, the companies said.
Orthopedic device maker Biomet Inc. agreed to be acquired by a private investment group for $10.9 billion in cash.
Dec. 19, 2006
Shares of Zimmer Holdings Inc., Stryker Corp. and Biomet Inc. plunged Monday as the companies, makers of artificial hips and knees, disclosed a federal investigation of the $7-billion-a-year orthopedic industry.
June 27, 2006
Four medical device implant makers will pay about $310 million and agree to federal monitoring and other reforms to settle a government probe into improper consulting contracts with surgeons, prosecutors said Thursday.
Sept. 28, 2007
A unit of Ryder Truck Rental Inc. has leased a 16,000-square-foot building on Transport Street in Ventura.
Aug. 1, 1995
World & Nation
Surgeons implant a telescoping artificial bone to replace the boy’s humerus, which had to be removed because of a rare cancer. The prosthesis can be expanded as he grows.
Sept. 16, 2014