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Unimpressed Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

Drug & Device Law

2006) (no causation where prescriber testified that, “despite [plaintiff’s] adverse reaction, he increasingly prescribes [the drug] because it is more successful in treating resistant strains of bacteria than many other antibiotics”); Baraukas v. drugs after he obtained knowledge about the increased risk”); Ames v. Apothecon, Inc. ,

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Confident Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

Drug & Device Law

He also testified that even if the warning label contained all of the information suggested by [plaintiff’s] expert, he would still have prescribed the medication for [plaintiff]. 8, 2019) (no causation where prescriber “testified that none of the additional risk information. . . Sigueiros , 2006 WL 1510408, at *3 (Cal.

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