Ventimiglia v. Cutter Laboratories

CARL R. GAERTNER, Presiding Judge.

On June 8,1981, Dr. Forbes A. McMullin, an orthopedic surgeon, set Joseph J. Ven-timiglia, Jr.’s fractured forearm in a cast manufactured by Cutter Laboratories. Soon after the cast was applied, the skin beneath it began to burn. Ventimiglia, Jr., a minor, by and through his next friend and natural guardian, Joseph J. Ventimig-lia, Sr., and Joseph J. Ventimiglia, Sr. in his own right sued Dr. McMullin and Cutter Laboratories for damages. Their second amended petition, filed October 8, 1984, alleged the cast was defective and that it had been negligently…