· 6/9/2017
In re Sea Ray Boats, Inc.
Citations
- 695 F. App'x 543
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- holding that comment k applies on a case-by-case basis and not as blanket immunity for all prescription drug design defect claims
- listing Alabama as a state that “provide[s] all prescription drugs categorical 16 immunity from strict liability for design defects”
- concluding comment k should provide an affirmative defense
- under CPLA, ‘‘there is only a duty to warn of those dangers that are known, or that are reasonably foreseeable, to the defendant’’
- “Under the learned intermediary doctrine, however, the relevant expectations are those of the physician, not the ultimate consumer.”
- “whether formulated under a strict liability or a negligence theory, section 52–572q only requires that a manufacturer warn of dangers about which it knew or should have known.”
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Judges: Newman, Stoll, Wallach
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