Anne Needham, Cross-Appellant v. White Laboratories, Inc., Cross-Appellee

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

Anne Needham brought this products liability suit against White Laboratories, basing federal jurisdiction on diversity of citizenship, and after a jury trial obtained a judgment for $800,000. White Laboratories appeals from the judgment. Needham cross-appeals, seeking a new trial on damages or, alternatively, additional interest on the judgment.

In 1952 Anne Needham’s mother, while pregnant with her, used a prescription drug manufactured by White Laboratories — dien-estrol — to prevent a miscarriage. Dienes-trol is a synthetic estrogen similar to the better-known DES…