Edwards v. Basel Pharmaceuticals

933 P.2d 298 (1997)

Alpha EDWARDS, Personal Representative of the Estate of John T. Edwards, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant,

v.

BASEL PHARMACEUTICALS, a DIVISION OF CIBA-GEIGY CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee.

No. 87192.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

March 4, 1997.

Rex K. Travis, Margaret E. Travis, Oklahoma City, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

James E. Weger, C. Michael Copeland, Jones, Givens, Gotcher & Bogan, P.C., Tulsa, for Defendant-Appellee.

SUMMERS, Vice Chief Justice:

Widow claims her husband's death was due to his use of a prescribed pharmaceutical product. Her theory of liability against the…