Odgers v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp.

OPINION AND ORDER

COHN, District Judge.

I

This is a products liability case. Plaintiff Susan Odgers (Odgers) alleges that her use of Ortho-Novum, an oral contraceptive manufactured by defendant Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp. (Ortho); caused a blood clot resulting in her partial paralysis. Odgers claims that Ortho’s failure to adequately warn her directly and failure to adequately warn her physician, Dr. Joan Wake (Dr. Wake), of the possibility of blood clotting makes it liable to her for the damages she has suffered.

The case was initially tried in June 1980 on an instruction that Ortho owed Odgers a…