Alston v. CARACO PHARMACEUTICAL, INC.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the drug label “is unequivocal in warning about the injuries allegedly sustained by Plaintiff and by providing Plaintiffs physician with specific detailed information on the risks of the [product]” (alteration in original) (internal quotation mark omitted)
• assuming that the FDA-approved label from 2004 was communicated to physicians
• dismissing failure to warn claim on summary judgment motion because “all of the alleged side effects described by [plaintiff were] specifically indicated as potential side effects in [the medication’s] package insert”
• “[Prescription medicine warnings are adequate when, as here, information regarding ‘the precise malady incurred’ was communicated in the prescribing information.”
• “The Plaintiff has not shown that a failure to warn ... was the proximate cause of his injuries, as his physicians were aware of the risks ...”

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