· 10/21/2003
Schaerrer v. Stewart's Plaza Pharmacy, Inc.
Citations
- 2003 UT 43
- 79 P.3d 922
- 485 Utah Adv. Rep. 16
- 2003 Utah LEXIS 105
- 2003 WL 22387568
How courts have described this case
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- reiterating that pharmacist has generally recognized duty to possess and exercise reasonable degree of skill, care, and knowledge that would be exercised by reasonably prudent pharmacist in same situation
- describing the duty under the learned intermediary doctrine as “a duty to warn only the physician prescribing the drug, not the end user or patient”
- “We extend the learned intermediary rule to exempt pharmacies from strict products liability when they properly fill a physician’s prescription.”
- extending the learned intermediary doctrine to pharmacists
- learned intermediary rule extended to pharmacists
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Judges: Durham, Durrant, Parrish, Nehring, Wilkins, Russon
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