Legal Opinion
Kovach v. Caligor Midwest
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided September 8, 2009No. 49S04-0902-CV-88PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
On Petition To Transfer from the Indiana Court of Appeals, No. 49404-0707 CV-406
BOEHM, Justice.
The plaintiffs allege their son was given a fatal overdose of pain medication by a nurse after a surgical procedure. The plaintiffs sued the manufacturers and distributors of the medicine cup used to administer the medication, alleging defects in design of the eup and failure to warn that the cup was not suitable for precision measurement. We affirm summary judgment in favor of these defendants because these claimed defects did not cause the death. The undisputed facts establish that if an overdose…
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