Generic drug claim isn’t preempted
Published: December 1, 2009
Tags: drug litigation, failure to warn, preemption, product liability
Federal drug safety law doesn’t preempt product liability claims against the makers of a generic brand of a diabetes drug, the 8th Circuit has ruled in reversing a summary judgment.
The plaintiff sued the manufacturers of metoclopramide, the generic form of Reglan, for failure to warn and misrepresentation under Minnesota law.
Her doctor had prescribed metoclopramide to ...
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