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Adam W. Mason had won a $7 million jury verdict in Florida state court on a claim that Hoffman-La Roche had not adequately warned about the alleged link between ingesting Accutane and developing inflammatory bowel disease.
This morning, in a per curiam decision, the Florida First District Court of Appeal reversed. Hoffman-La…
A couple of brief notes on new decisions:
(1) In Accutane litigation, plaintiff’s expert Ronald Fogel is now 0-2 under Daubert. The latest opinion excluding his testimony does so because his opinions overreached the medical literature on which they were based. The holding:
Both [the articles], in their review of the existing literature, case
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Bloomberg News reported this moments ago:
“Roche Holding AG, the world’s biggest maker of cancer drugs, is pulling its Accutane acne medicine from the U.S. market after juries awarded at least $33 million in damages to users who blamed the drug for bowel disease.”
Here’s our take: The cause of inflammatory bowel disease is…
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Yesterday afternoon, the Eleventh Circuit affirmed, in an unpublished opinion, the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in an Accutane-suicide case. Stupak v. Hoffman-La Roche, Inc., No. 07-15980, slip op. (11th Cir. June 10, 2009) (link here).
In a nutshell, Stupak, age 17, was prescribed Accutane in December 1999 to…
We know that headline is boring: “Accutane: McCarrell Remanded For New Trial.”
But give us a break.
Levine comes down. We’re duty-bound to blog about it. The press calls for reactions to it. We’re writing about the case in print media. We’re being asked to speak about the case.
And then there’s our real jobs:…
Just one week after oral argument, the Eleventh Circuit has issued an unpublished per curiam opinion affirming the trial court’s decision to exclude plaintiffs’ expert testimony supposedly linking Accutane to inflammatory bowel disease. The key sentence in the one-page decision is this:
“We have considered the briefs, the relevant parts of the record, and the…
Can Accutane cause inflammatory bowel disease?
When the MDL trial court decision on that subject came down a year ago June, we were quick like a bunny: We published a post about that decision the very next afternoon.
How can we possibly do better than that?
Here’s how: We’re posting about the appellate decision even…
The Accutane guys are on a roll.
We posted last month about the defense win on Daubert in the Accutane MDL, and before that about the order excluding “relatedness assessments” as proof of causation in the inflammatory bowel disease cases.
The new news just arrived on Wednesday, August 15. It involves the “psychiatric-track cases.”
In…
We have some good news and some bad news.
Okay, if you insist.
First, the good news: It’s Judge Moody’s decision granting the defendants’ Daubert motion to exclude plaintiffs’ general causation expert in the Accutane MDL.
You gotta love America. Just last week, the big news was that a New Jersey state court jury had…
Patients taking prescription drugs sometimes have bad reactions. Was the reaction caused by the drug, or was it mere coincidence? Was the nausea caused not by the drug, but by the taco for dinner last night?
For subjects enrolled in clinical trials, both the physicians conducting the trials (the “investigators”) and medical monitors overseeing the…