Personal Injury Law

Drug-Injury Lawsuits Supported in 6-3 Supreme Court Decision

Tennessee drug injury liability lawsuits, drug injury lawyers, and those injured by prescription drug side-effects across the U.S. received surprising support with last week?s Supreme Court decision ruling against drug manufacturer Wyeth. The 6-3 decision in Wyeth v. Levine marks a sea change in the Court?s stance on liability law and has many pharmaceutical drug manufacturers sweating.

Since a 2006 executive order, pharmaceutical companies have been avoiding injury lawsuits for dangerous medical products by absurdly asserting that FDA approval means that a defective medical device or drug has been deemed safe. This, despite the public misconception that the FDA performs its own safety studies before approving prescription and OTC drugs; this, despite FDA officials admitting publicly that the agency lacks the resources to protect the public from dangerous drugs (and, I'm inferring, salmonella).

Full post as published by Tennessee Law Blog on March 09, 2009 (boomark / email).