Thankfully, their strategy to shift liability failed:
In a setback for drugmakers, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals ruled that pharma can’t escape liability for harmful prescriptions by blaming problems on the docs. At issue is the notion of’learned intermediary,’ which says a doc presumably has enough info to make a prudent prescribing decision, absolving a drugmaker of any subsequent problem with a patient.
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