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Another RICOdiculous Decision

Drug & Device Law

Yet what the plaintiffs were claiming is that, despite Actos’ undisputed effectiveness as a diabetes treatment, no TPP in the country would have purchased it for that purpose because of the 3/10,000 bladder cancer increased risk. at *6 (plaintiff “has documents and formularies reaching back to only 2009”). PATDC82 I , 943 F.3d

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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. 2009), reversed a plaintiff’s verdict for entry of judgment n.o.v. Medrano , 28 S.W.3d

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Unimpressed Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

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The law presumes that licensed doctors know what they are doing. The prescriber’s] testimony, however, does not establish that he would have altered his prescribing conduct. There’s a reason why prescribing physicians and implanting surgeons are called “learned” intermediaries. at *3 (emphasis original). Hoffman-LaRoche, Inc. ,

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Doctors Without Burdens:  Another Mesh Court Goes Backwards

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For instance, plaintiffs in the vast majority of cases know that they will need evidence from a prescribing physician, testimony or affidavit for summary judgment and testimony for trial. It focused squarely on the doctor. The second was the decision below. Corder , 473 F.Supp.3d Corder , 473 F.Supp.3d 3d 736 at 743.

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