David Flesner v. Bayer AG
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
MELLOY, Circuit Judge.
This is a failure-to-warn case involving the prescription drug Baycol, a cholesterol-reducing medication. The case comes to us after the district court 1 granted Bayer’s motion for summary judgment on Flesner’s claims for strict liability, negligence, express and implied warranty, and unjust enrichment. On appeal, our decision focuses on whether the district court abused its discretion in finding that Flesner failed to present competent expert testimony on medical causation, requiring entry of summary judgment. We also address whether the district court abused its…
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