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Dealing with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Non-Decision on Standards Compliance Evidence

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at 526 (citation omitted). “[R]esearch and innovation in medical equipment and treatment would be inhibited.” Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , 2019), analogously held that the standard for admission of expert testimony was “procedural” and therefore Pennsylvania’s Frye rule applied, not Texas’ stricter expert admissibility standard.

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50-State Survey of State Court Decisions Supporting Expert-Related Judicial Gatekeeping

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We think that they can, and for a state (like Pennsylvania and a number of others) that still follows the “ Frye ” standard looking to the “general acceptance” of expert testimony as the touchstone to admissibility, a Rule 702 state-law equivalent might look something like this: Rule 702. E.g. , Walsh v. BASF Corp. , 3d 446, 461 (Pa.

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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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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. That oncologists prescribing lifesaving standard-of-care treatment in the face of “aggressive cancer” are not impressed by a risk of – permanent hair loss – is not surprising. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ,