Navarone Productions v. HSBC Gibbs Gulf Insurance Consultants Limited

How courts have described this case

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• holding that plaintiff could not show proximate cause where treating physician had independent knowledge of the risks posed by treatment, because “physician’s decision not to inform the plaintiff of the risk ... was an intervening cause.”
• finding prescriber’s independent awareness that particular adverse event was a “possible adverse reaction associated with” the medication prevented plaintiff from demonstrating proximate cause
• applying the informed intermediary doctrine where the treating physician \testified that he was independently aware of the dangers involved\ despite his \decision not to inform the plaintiff of the risk\ of a side effect the patient ultimately experienced
• no liability where plaintiff suffered “bilateral aseptic necrosis of the femoral head” after ingesting prednisone, and PDR and package inserts expressly listed this specific condition as possible adverse reaction, but physician knowingly chose not to warn patient

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).