Legal Opinion
Siharath v. Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corp.
District Court, N.D. Georgia
Decided March 1, 2001No. 1:95-cv-00965PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
THRASH, District Judge.
These are two complex products liability-actions. In each case, a postpartum woman suffered a stroke after taking a prescription drug manufactured by the Defendant. In its simplest form, the question presented is did the drug cause the strokes? Or, is the temporal association of taking the drug and a subsequent stroke merely coincidental? To begin to answer those questions, the Court must address the recurring issue of what is the quantity and quality of scientific evidence that a plaintiff must present on the issue of medical causation in a world of imperfect…
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