O'CONNELL v. Biomet, Inc.

Opinion by

Judge CASEBOLT.

In this action against a medical device manufacturer and its sales representative, plaintiffs, Kerry O'Connell (O'Connell) and Anne O'Connell, appeal the summary judgment in favor of defendants, Biomet, Inc., EBI, LP., and John Kyger, on their claims of negligence and strict lability failure to warn. We conclude that the trial court correctly applied the "learned intermediary" doctrine in the context of the failure to warn claim and correctly held that product warnings need be given only to O'Connell's physician. We further conclude that the trial court correctly…