Drug & Device Law

MARCH 16, 2023

In two of these cases, our client won summary judgment at the trial court level and an appellate court ended up creating a new cause of action to accommodate the plaintiff’s theory (and lack of helpful testimony from the prescribing physician). 2010) (Ohio law), and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in Lance v. Wyeth , 619 F.3d

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Drug & Device Law

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

2010) (Matsen); Nelson v. Because the facts of [plaintiff’s] case paralleled the description of [the pseudonym] in Dr. Moline’s congressional testimony, [defendant] suspected that [she] was one of the thirty-three anonymous individuals that the article had studied. 3d 213, 222-23, 229-32 (S.D.N.Y. 2018) (Etminan); Gerke v.

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Drug & Device Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

First, plaintiffs complained about allegedly undisclosed opinion testimony offered by a defense expert. Despite this, plaintiffs complained of prejudice because more than a day passed between the testimony and telling the jury to disregard it. We will trust you to fill in the blanks.

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Drug & Device Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

That the product had been approved in “other countries” could not create a triable issue of fact because, even for other uses that the FDA eventually allowed, the necessary clinical trials had not been completed in 2010. 7, 2022), which addressed the same question in the context of the admissibility of expert testimony. See Davis v.

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Drug & Device Law

JUNE 6, 2022

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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Drug & Device Law

MAY 30, 2022

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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Drug & Device Law

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The crux of her argument on appeal was that deposition testimony from a physician who used to work for the defendant should not have been introduced at trial because he was not named as an expert, and that defendant’s designated expert should not have been allowed to rely on that deposition testimony when he testified live at trial.

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Drug & Device Law

JUNE 20, 2022

The pre-litigation facts of Donaldson are fairly simple: Implant in 2010 of the two devices and treatment in 2014 for “injuries resulting from erosion of the mesh into her bladder, vagina and adjacent tissues, causing scarring, bladder stones and abdominal pain, among other problems.” That meant summary judgment.

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Drug & Device Law

JUNE 16, 2022

Mata also reminds us of: (2) the numerous courts that ignored the 2010 amendment to Fed. These decisions did that in order to keep holding issues, such as the sufficiency of the factual basis for expert testimony, to be jury questions when the new Rule 702 expressly consigned them to the court’s gatekeeping function.

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Drug & Device Law

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Thus, when the other side inveigles one of ours to switch sides – usually with the promise of a lot more money for a lot more testimony – the result can be a lot of collateral litigation. We’ve blogged a couple of times before about turncoat experts, so the recent decision in Hawkins v. DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc. 2023 WL 7292164 (D.D.C.

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Drug & Device Law

AUGUST 24, 2023

The court exercised its “gatekeeping” function under Rule 702 to assess whether the methodology underlying Plaintiff’s proffered expert testimony was “scientifically valid” and whether it could “be [properly] applied to the facts in issue.” Nor could Plaintiff fill that void by relying on expert testimony from other cases.

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Drug & Device Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

at 287 (citing transcript of expert’s testimony). [A]t A]t first blush, [the expert’s] testimony. No other witness offered testimony on these unidentified standards. An excellent example is the Sherman case, which involved junk science causation testimony in what we call a “toxic soup” chemical exposure case.

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