Defense fired back in their opening statement in Chanin v. Desert Shadow Endoscopy Center. The plaintiffs alleged that drug companies Baxter and Teva supplied propofol containers that were defective because they were too large, thus encouraging the kind of multi-dose "double-dipping" that could foreseeably result in the spread of blood-born pathogens, such as the Hepatitis C infection that plaintiff Henry Chanin contracted at Desert Shadow Endoscopy.
Topics: Toxic Torts, Products Liability, Endoscopy Center Cases, Pharmaceutical
On direct examination, Sharon Putney testified that her mother, Margot Putney, tried to tell Sharon "Happy Birthday" nine days before her mother's death, but she "couldn't get the words out."
Topics: Toxic Torts, Products Liability, Tobacco Litigation, Putney v. R.J. Reynolds
The jury in Putney v. R.J. Reynolds deliberated only briefly before determining that Margot Pitney died of lung cancer, rather than thyroid cancer, as the defense had suggested.
Topics: Toxic Torts, Products Liability, Tobacco Litigation, Putney v. R.J. Reynolds
Topics: Toxic Torts, Products Liability, Tobacco Litigation, Putney v. R.J. Reynolds
Closing arguments in Putney v. RJ Reynolds began today. Plaintiff attorney Charles Baumberger argued that the treating physicians were in the best position to diagnose Margot Putney's cancer, and the treating physicians -- "the eye witnesses" -- all concluded that the cancer began in the lung, not the thyroid. "They say that five treating physicians got it wrong!"
Topics: Toxic Torts, Products Liability, Tobacco Litigation, Putney v. R.J. Reynolds
