Drug & Device Law

DECEMBER 29, 2023

2023) (remote trial testimony cannot be compelled beyond Rule 45’s 100-mile limit on subpoenas) ( here ); Carson v. They excluded bogus expert testimony under Fed. As a matter of science, the purported link was imaginary, as discussed at great length in one of the many excellent Zantac ( 2022+4 ) MDL opinions. Bonta , 85 F.4th

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Drug & Device Law

JANUARY 11, 2022

In In re: Onglyza and Kombiglyze XR Products Liability Litigation , MDL 2809, 2022 WL 43244 (E.D. 5, 2022), the MDL judge bifurcated discovery into two phases with general causation proceeding first. Defendants’ first expert was an endocrinologist – the type of doctor who treats diabetes. citation omitted).

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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

2775, 1:17-cv-00944, 2022 WL 171503 (D. 18, 2022), interesting not so much for the specific holdings but because of the insight the case provides into one of the more prevalent dynamics of modern MDLs. 2022 WL 171503, *1. First, plaintiffs complained about allegedly undisclosed opinion testimony offered by a defense expert.

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Drug & Device Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Doctors Who Perform Abortions: Their Characteristics & Patterns of Holding & Using Hospital Privileges,” 6. 9 (“Longitudinal” for the proposition that “adverse events from chemical abortion drugs can overwhelm the medical system and place ‘enormous pressure and stress’ on doctors during emergencies and complications”), at *14 n.22

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Drug & Device Law

MARCH 23, 2022

Texas March 16, 2022). The plaintiff lawyers had managed to extract some testimony from the prescriber that he would have read with interest any additional information about the mesh product’s complication rates. This ploy often works at doctor depositions. Back by popular demand, here is the mesh case of the week: Clowe v.

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Drug & Device Law

MAY 30, 2022

The law presumes that licensed doctors know what they are doing. Somatics, LLC , 2022 WL 989469 (9th Cir. April 1, 2022) (the companion case to this ). The prescriber’s] testimony, however, does not establish that he would have altered his prescribing conduct. These propositions were employed recently in Himes v.

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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. 2022 WL 138630 (C.D. 14, 2022). at *3 (quoting expert’s testimony). Exclusion of expert testimony was affirmed in Ervin v.

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Drug & Device Law

MARCH 9, 2022

Texas March 2, 2022)— is a veritable mixed bag. The issue in Robinson was the admissibility of testimony by the plaintiff’s regulatory expert. So much for judicial gate-keeping, Inadequate Warnings to Doctors. How does such testimony meet the relevance requirement of Fed. The “mesh case of the week” — Robinson v.

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Drug & Device Law

JUNE 20, 2022

That could be because the local courts have taken a different approach than the MDLs did, because it is hard to prove a design defect when your experts criticize every device in the class, or because the prescribing doctors in later cases were aware of the risks. 4th __, 2022 WL 2145276 (7th Cir. Donaldson v.

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Drug & Device Law

APRIL 6, 2022

Colorado March 28, 2022), because it hammers some ubiquitous plaintiff mesh experts and because it finds a way to depart from an awful MDL ruling. The remand court began its opinion with a reference to the court’s gatekeeper role in admitting or excluding expert testimony, so we immediately suspected we were in for a good ride.

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Drug & Device Law

JANUARY 5, 2024

A prior opinion in this case earned the top spot on the Blog’s Ten Best Prescription Drug/Medical Device Decisions of 2022. Plaintiffs had no evidence to rebut the treater’s clear testimony. Eli Lilly & Co., 2023 WL 8717570 (W.D. 18, 2023). This opinion is short and sweet, but a good one too. Eli Lilly & Co. ,

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Drug & Device Law

OCTOBER 20, 2022

10, 2022), is not one of those. For instance, a plaintiff has to prove both “substantial factor” and “but for” causation and that has to come from expert testimony for a prescription medical device. For some reason, though, plaintiff attempted to rely on the deposition testimony of two of the treating physicians, Drs.

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Drug & Device Law

JUNE 13, 2022

The evidence showed, however, that “[e]ach doctor and nurse involved with [plaintiff’s] medical care in 1997 was aware that only the patient should activate the [device] unless a doctor instructed otherwise.” 2022 WL 970681 (N.D. March 31, 2022); Robinson v. 3d , 2022 WL 614919 (S.D. March 2, 2022).

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Drug & Device Law

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

2022 WL 425206 (N.D. Thus, Pence’s proposed testimony didn’t “fit” this case: There is no logical connection between her expertise, the issues in the case, and her opinions. Plaintiff’s] argument that [her] testimony has been admitted in other cases is not persuasive. 2022 WL 409638 (N.D. 2022 WL 336811 (N.D.

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Drug & Device Law

JUNE 1, 2022

We’ve been writing for a while about cases rejecting someone’s insistence that a doctor prescribe ivermectin for Covid-19, even when that doctor (or hospital) thinks such use of ivermectin is not appropriate medical care – is, in fact, horsebleep. ?. Aurora Healthcare , 2022 WL 1657559 (Wisc. The appellate court was unimpressed.

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Drug & Device Law

DECEMBER 9, 2022

2022 WL 17219513 (C.D. 18, 2022), the plaintiff alleged that the warnings provided with her pelvic mesh devices were inadequate. Brennan , 2022 WL 17219513 at *12. Note that this is just a little murky: what the doctor would have told the patient does seem to be on the table in the court’s analysis. In Brennan v.

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