LeBlanc v. G.D. Searle & Co.

Plaintiffs, Drucilla and Wade LeBlanc, Louisiana residents, appeal from an order of the circuit court of Cook County dismissing their strict liability complaint against defendant, G.D. Searle & Co. (Searle), a Delaware corporation, in which (1) Drucilla alleged she suffered kidney failure as a result of her use of Demulen-28, a birth control pill manufactured by Searle, and (2) Wade claimed loss of consortium. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm.

The trial court dismissed plaintiffs’ complaint based on the “borrowing statute” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 110, par. 13-210) of our…