Reading through Obermeier v. Northwestern Memorial Hosp., __ N.E.3d __, 2019 IL App. (1st) 170553 (Ill. App. Div. June 28, 2019), reminded us of scrolling through television channels in the middle of the day with time to kill. The opinion started off talking about the basic medical facts of the case and we were
No. It can’t be. PLIVA, Inc. v. Mensing, 564 U.S. 604 (2011) took care of that. Just look at our generic preemption scorecard – the proof is there. The warnings on generic drugs must be the “same” as those on branded drugs. Generic drug manufacturers cannot unilaterally alter, amend, or change any warning and
If we were to recap briefly our reactions to the Levine decision and ten years of decisions attempting to apply it, then we might say something like this. The Court’s creation of a clear evidence standard for conflict preemption in the context of warnings claims for branded drugs was both novel and misguided. The Court
You haven’t heard of Blue Car syndrome? Remember the last time you went car shopping. You found a particular make and model (a “blue car”) and then, like magic, you see that same “blue car” 10 times in the next week. It’s in the parking lot of your gym. It pulls up next to you
This post is from the non-Reed Smith side of the blog.
We haven’t talked about the district court decisions in Dolin v. GlaxoSmithKline LLC, because in our opinion there simply hasn’t been anything good to talk about. Plaintiff sued the manufacturer of the brand drug Paxil arguing that the brand manufacturer should be liable
This post comes only from the Cozen O’Connor side of the blog.
Plaintiffs’ lawyers wanted to file a class action premised on the recovery of costs spent monitoring and replacing allegedly defective defibrillators manufactured by St. Jude Medical LLC. And they wanted to file it in Illinois. So they recruited a putative class representative,
This post is from the non-Reed Smith side of the blog.
You’re likely all familiar with the phrase, “don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.” Checking out a gift horse’s teeth is like looking for the price tag of the gift to see how much it’s worth. The expression is meant to convey that
The personal injury decisions Daimler AG v. Bauman, 571 U.S. 117 (2014), and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court, 137 S. Ct. 1773 (2017), are gifts that keep on giving. The latest development is Wilson v. Nouvag GmbH, 2018 WL 1565602 (N.D. Ill. March 30, 2018), where the plaintiff went to the
We recently read a news story about a man who was imprisoned for 39 years for a crime he did not commit. The crime was grisly and resulted in the violent deaths of a 24-year-old woman and a small child, leaving a community outraged and law enforcement officials determined to hold someone responsible. So, burdens
Today’s post is another guest post from Kevin Hara, of Reed Smith, who is on his way to becoming a semi-regular blog contributor. This post is about forum non conveniens, which is more discretionary, and less enforceable than personal jurisdiction as a limitation on plaintiff-side (or even defense-side) forum shopping, but which, as