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Another RICOdiculous Decision

Drug & Device Law

341 (2001). The drug is still on the market, and it has other risks that the FDA has found significantly more serious – requiring a boxed warning – than a three-one hundredths-of one-percent (0.0003) increase in absolute incidence of bladder cancer. Plaintiffs Legal Committee , 531 U.S. You can see where this is going.

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Ruling On Motion To Dismiss In A Pennsylvania (Prescription) Device Case Takes Us Back

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On appeal, the plaintiff was allowed to carve out a previously unrecognized claim for what is generously called “negligent design” but is more accurately called “negligent failure to withdraw a legally marketed prescription medical product.” (We will skip the massive preemption issues with such a claim, but feel free to peruse some posts.)

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Another Reason Why The FDA, Not Litigants, Approves Products

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AHM I thus relied on these retracted articles both to support its standing analysis and substantively to justify its injunction that would have removed mifepristone from the market. 19, 2021) (admitting and excluding Studnicki testimony); Whole Woman’s Health Alliance v. See Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. Buckman Co.

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Unimpressed Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

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The prescriber’s] testimony, however, does not establish that he would have altered his prescribing conduct. Given this testimony, the plaintiffs could not “show that stronger manufacturer warnings would have altered the physician’s prescribing conduct.” Plaintiff] has not identified any testimony from [the prescriber] that. . .

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Confident Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

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Thus a confident learned intermediary’s testimony will defeat causation as a matter of law by stating that, notwithstanding a poor result, the treatment provided was standard of care, and even in hindsight they would not do anything different. Confident learned intermediaries stand by their medical decisions. Medrano , 28 S.W.3d

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The FDA and Feasible Alternative Designs

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In product liability litigation generally, plaintiffs have been allowed to invent all kinds of “alternative” designs as long as some “expert” opines that the design (even if never before marketed) is “feasible.” For physicians to prescribe such a safer drug, it must reach the market. Wyeth Laboratories, Inc. , 2d 839, 851 (N.Y.

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No Expert Do-Overs

Drug & Device Law

In the middle was In re Lipitor (Atorvastatin Calcium) Marketing, Sales Practices. & Plaintiffs will not be heard to argue that they “could have shored up their cases by other means had they known their expert testimony would be found inadmissible.” Weisgram v. Marley Co. , 440, 455-56 (2000). Fru-Con Inc. , 3d 734 (7th Cir.