Legal Opinion
McNeil Pharmaceutical v. Hawkins
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided December 23, 1996No. 94-CV-1346, 94-CV-1396PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KING, Associate Judge:
Three months after first ingesting a drug prescribed for muscle stiffness, Elva Mae Gilliam suffered severe liver failure and died. This is an appeal in a products liability action filed by Delores Hawkins on behalf of the estate of Gilliam against McNeil Pharmaceutical (“McNeil”) alleging that its drug product, Parafon Forte DSC (containing the drug generically known as chlorzoxazone), caused the liver failure and death of Gilliam, Delores Hawkins’s mother. A jury awarded Gilliam’s estate $1.5 million in compensatory and $2.5 million in punitive damages. McNeil appeals…
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