Amputees’ Case Asks If FDA Label Immunizes Drug Firms from Liability

October 31, 2008

  • November 3, 2008 at 8:54 am
    Dread says:
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    Here’s a 63 year old guitar picking Vermont woman who lives in a farmhouse off a dirt road and who settled with the clinic (the only ones with any liability here)now wanting more. If this drug has been around for 50 years (successfully) there is no reason for Wyeth to have foreseen a problem. The clinic and the physician who opted for the radical protocol have some liability and they paid for it. Drug manufacturers can only do so much to test and prove their products. If people continue to sue them everytime they get a bad outcome, soon there won’t be any pharmaceutical companies or the cost of drugs will skyrocket. Sometimes in life there are “accidents” that aren’t anyone’s fault. People need to deal with that. If the clinic refused to treat her chronic problem she’d have sued then too. The low life personal injury bar wants people to believe everytime something bad happens, someone must pay. Not true….simply a fabrication to generate contingency fees.

  • November 3, 2008 at 10:10 am
    MeAgain says:
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    “FDA should be the floor not the ceiling” is a joke – If every state were to impose their own “regulations” on drugs – it would be a nightmare.

    What would this world be like without the Drug Mfgs? Yes, there will be errors, and yes there will be unforeseen consequences – for the smallest percentage of users. The benefits out weigh the risks – You can’t sue every time something happens to you – She obviously “settled” with the clinic – who is the negligent party in this case – what more does she want? Her “joyous hand” was amputated when the clinic hit an artery which became infected and had to be sacrificed – not because the drug manufacturer didn’t put a label on the bottle that said “Idiots should not administer this drug with needles they don’t know how to use”

    GMA Break – Take your settlement and go back to the woods.



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