McEwen v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation

This is a negligence action involving the liability of a manufacturer of ethical drugs ① for its alleged failure to make timely, adequate warnings to the medical profession of dangers which the manufacturer knows, or has reason to know, are inherent in the use of its drug.

Freda McEwen brought this action against defendants, Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation and Syntex Laboratories, Inc. (hereinafter Ortho and Syntex, respectively), to recover damages for blindness in her right eye and injuries to her left eye. In her complaint, Mrs. McEwen alleged that each defendant faded to adequately warn…