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Unimpressed Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

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2012) (no proof that hypothetical “Dear Doctor letter” or on-product warning would have causal effect given that risk had arisen only once in implanter’s several thousand similar surgeries) (applying Tennessee law); Eck v. Wyeth Pharmaceuticals , 2012 WL 1452556, at *?? (Pa. See also Rodriguez v. Stryker Co. , 3d 568, 576-77 (6th Cir.

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Suing the Certifiers – A Dangerous Undertaking

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Anyway, this fraudulent “doctor” allegedly “touched them without informed consent” and caused them “emotional distress. After that, over the next decade, he also defrauded the State of Maryland and at least two hospitals. 2012 WL 3265002, at *5 (N.D. University Hospital , 659 N.Y.S.2d 23 in its current form.

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