Legal Opinion
Jennifer Kay Brumit Mathis and Her Husband, Barry L. Mathis, Plaintiffs v. Eli Lilly and Company
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided October 7, 1983No. 81-5803PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WELLFORD, Circuit Judge.
This case was filed in a Tennessee state court by Mrs. Jennifer Mathis, joined in the suit by her husband, Barry Mathis, seeking damages for personal injury due to her exposure to diethylstilbestrol (DES), a drug developed by Eli Lilly as a synthetic hormone to prevent miscarriages. It is alleged that Mrs. Mathis’ mother took DES in May, 1955, while pregnant without knowledge that the drug DES may cause cancer in her offspring. Mrs. Mathis alleges that she did not know she had developed cancer (of the cervix) until July, 1980, some twenty-five years after the product…
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