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We have written many times, as recently as Tuesday, that the practice of plaintiff lawyers to include patently inapplicable claims among a laundry list of causes of action asserted in complaints is lazy, if not problematic.  It is rare to see a plaintiff self-regulate and cull down an overbroad pleading without a defense motion

We have no personal knowledge of the litigation concerning GLP-1 receptor agonist medications and the Blog has not posted on it yet, but we do know something about litigation over widely used prescription medications.  Over the decades, there have been many drugs or classes of drugs that became “blockbusters” because they were widely prescribed to

This is from the non-Dechert part of the Blog.

Over the years, the Blog has had many, many posts related to the issue of whether Pennsylvania recognized any form of strict liability in product liability actions against prescription medical products.  In addition to the fact that several of the principal authors of the Blog have

One good thing that occurred during the pandemic was the expansion of telehealth.  Telehealth existed already and probably would have been expanding anyway, but patient willingness to get care from home instead of risking exposure from an in-person visit paired well with provider interest in not going to or even having to maintain an office. 

Even though lawyers who bill for their time defending product liability cases might favor those cases sticking around and plaintiffs getting many chances before inevitable dismissals with prejudice, we have been clear that we think plaintiffs should not get to re-plead around preemption once courts have defined the preempted path.  There seems to be an

We are unabashedly pro-science.  In our cases, we are usually on the side of good science against bad or no science.  In discussing large-scale product liability litigation, we have said many times how bad science and the risk of attendant litigation can negatively impact the development of new products.  Even if we were so naïve