George v. Parke-Davis

How courts have described this case

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• holding manufacturers of DES liable to a woman born alive but injured in utero
• holding manufacturers of DES liable to a woman born alive but injured in utero
• discussing level of activity in the manufacture, sale, and distribution of a product a successor must engage in before they may be held liable under the product line exception
• in order to inhibit defendants from randomly impleading insolvent corporations to reduce their share of presumptive liability, defendants are required to establish the actual market share of impleaded defendants
• in order to inhibit defendants from randomly impleading insolvent corporations to reduce their share of presumptive liability, defendants are required to establish the actual market share of impleaded defendants
• “The product line [doctrine] requires the corporation to manufacture the same type of product, and not merely stay in the same type of manufacturing business.”

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