prod.liab.rep.(cch)p 10,668 Mary McMahon and Cross-Appellees v. Eli Lilly and Company, and Cross-Appellant

WEIGEL, Senior District Judge.

In proceedings below, plaintiffs Mary McMahon and her husband Francis sued in their individual capacities and as representatives of their deceased son. They claimed that the Eli Lilly and Company (“Lilly”), a pharmaceutical manufacturer, failed to warn adequately of the dangerous propen sities of diethylstilbestrol (DES). 1 This failure to warn, plaintiffs claimed, rendered DES an unreasonably dangerous product, so that Lilly should be held strictly liable for injuries allegedly caused by the drug.

Mrs. McMahon has found it difficult to achieve full-term…