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Ruling Ripples Beyond Drug Firms
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The Supreme Court's ruling against Wyeth knocks down a 2006 Bush administration regulation which declared that permitting product-liability law suits conflicted with "FDA's role "as the expert federal agency responsible for evaluating and regulating drugs." Justice Paul Stevens writing the majority opinion said the Bush position is "entitled to no weight, and was "inherently suspect because no evidence was given in support of its position and the states and the public did not get an opportunity to comment before it was issued. Wyeth had argued that it met FDA guidelines in the label for its antinausea drug Phenergan, and wasn't liable when a 63 year old guitar player lost her arm after receiving the drug.
U.S. Supreme Court and other legal rulings affecting the pharmaceutical industry.
10/27/2008
The Wyeth vs. Levine and other rulings by the Supreme Court that affect pharmaceutical companies, and how they respond to meeting norms of proper behaviour that are expected of the companies.
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