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· 4/2/2008

In Re Viagra Products Liability Litigation

Citations

  • 572 F. Supp. 2d 1071
  • 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 28686
  • 2008 WL 919550

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  • recognizing that medical experts commonly disagree on issues of diagnosis, but that questions of conflicting evidence must be left for jury’s determination
  • noting that the studies relied on by the expert “were peer-reviewed, published, contain known rates of error, and resulted] from generally accepted epidemiologic research,” and that “the data appear not to result from post-litigation research”
  • distinguishing specific and general causation with respect to the 2.0 relative risk requirement for epidemiological studies
  • “The Court agrees that the Bradford Hill criteria are helpful for determining reliability but rejects Pfizer’s suggestion that any failure to satisfy those criteria provides independent grounds for granting its Daubert Motion.”

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Judges: Paul A. Magnuson

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