Legal Opinion
Edwards v. Basel Pharmaceuticals
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided March 4, 1997No. 87192PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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 manufacturer is that the manufacturer failed to adequately warn her husband of the effects of overdose. The manufacturer responds that it fully warned the prescribing physician of the pertinent risks, and further complied with Food and Drug Administration requirements for warning the ultimate user. The case is in the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, which has certified to us the following as an unsettled question of…
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