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

Drug & Device Law

2006) – a precedential holding that the same Pennsylvania rule barring strict liability claims against prescription drugs also applied to prescription medical devices − should not be followed because the plaintiffs in Creazzo were supposedly “pro se.” Coffing Hoist Division , 528 A.2d 2d 590 (Pa. Omega Flex, Inc. , 3d 328 (Pa. but see Hahn v.

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A Thorny PMA Preemption Decision from Rhode Island

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Plaintiff had surgery in 2014 in which the clips were used. Defendant] had submitted these reports to the FDA , but the trial justice limited their evidentiary use to the duty-to-warn and notice issues. Shortly thereafter she began experiencing several adverse symptoms, including pain. at *1-2.

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