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Unimpressed Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

Drug & Device Law

The law presumes that licensed doctors know what they are doing. 1978), where a hypertensive patient was injured after being injected with the defendant’s drug – despite warnings that “expressly directed the doctor administering the drug to refrain from giving it to a patient with hypertension.” Best Pharmacal , 577 P.2d Robins Co. ,

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Suing the Certifiers – A Dangerous Undertaking

Drug & Device Law

Apparently, a fraudulent foreign-trained “doctor” treated the plaintiffs, none of whom claimed malpractice or any physical injury whatsoever. Anyway, this fraudulent “doctor” allegedly “touched them without informed consent” and caused them “emotional distress. 23 in its current form. 471 (11th Cir. 2d 775, 799 & n.114

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Confident Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

Drug & Device Law

Further, “both doctors testified that they still prescribe [the drug] for patients with conditions similar to plaintiff’s condition.” 2007 WL 2526402, at *3 (D. 2007 WL 5861354, at *4 (C.D. 2007 WL 5861354, at *4 (C.D. 8, 2019) (no causation where prescriber “testified that none of the additional risk information. . .

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