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· 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

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • 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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