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  • Chapman v. AstraZeneca Pharm. LP

    Publication Date: 2022-10-18
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: N17C-04-320 PPI

    Medical expert testimony excluded where opinion was based on possibility rather than stated in terms of a reasonable degree of medical certainty.

  • Perkins v. Proctor & Gamble Pharm. Co.

    Publication Date: 2022-05-31
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: D69836

    Products liability lawsuit dismissed where cited federal statutes failed to give rise to a private cause of action and plaintiff, a non-attorney, could not represent the heirs of the decedent.

  • Kaur v. Boston Scientific Corp.

    Publication Date: 2022-05-24
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Health Care | Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Jones
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert J. Leoni, Shelby & Leoni, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Colleen D. Shields, Eckert, Seamans, Cherin & Mellott LLC, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: D69829

    Court excluded expert testimony to the extent it opined about corporate defendant's state of mind or the reasonableness of its actions or attempted to offer a legal conclusion, since such testimony would usurp the fact-finding province of the jury.

  • Droz v. Hennessy Indus., LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-04-19
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Automotive | Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael C. Dalton, Bartholomew J. Dalton, Ipek Kurul, Andrew C. Dalton, Dalton & Associates, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Adam L. Balick, Michael Collins Smith, Patrick J. Smith, Balick & Balick, LLC, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Brian D. Tome, Reilly, Mcdevitt & Henrich, P.C., Wilmington, DE; Susan M. Valinis, Reilly, Mcdevitt & Henrich, P.C., Philadelphia, PA for appellee.
    Case Number: D69784

    Plaintiff presented sufficient evidence to overcome summary judgment through circumstantial evidence demonstrating that decedent used asbestos-containing products on defendant's arc grinder machine.

  • Pedicone v. Thompson/Center Arms Co., LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-03-08
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Carpenter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph J. Rhoades, Stephen T. Morrow, Rhoades & Morrow LLC, Wilmington, DE; Michael A. Trunk, Thomas E. Bosworth, Kline & Specter, P.C., Philadelphia, PA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Timothy Jay Houseal, Jennifer M. Kinkus, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Anthony M. Piscotti, Danny C. Lallis, Pisciotti Lallis Edreich, Florham Park, NJ for defendants.
    Case Number: D69740

    Failure to read user/instruction manual for product precluded a user injured by the product from pursuing a failure to warn claim.

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  • Murphy v. St. Jude Med., LLC

    Publication Date: 2021-12-21
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Health Care | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Burke
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David G. Culley, Tybout, Redfearn & Pell, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff;
    for defendant: Brian M. Rostocki, Reed Smith LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: D69652

    Product liability claim based on "indeterminate product test" dismissed where the test provided an evidentiary means of proving manufacturing defects but did not itself constitute a separate legal claim.

  • Guinn v. St. Jude Med., LLC

    Publication Date: 2021-12-14
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Health Care | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Burke
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David G. Culley, Tybout, Redfearn & Pell, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff
    for defendant: Brian M. Rostocki, Reed Smith LLP, Wilmington, DE; J. David Bickham, Reed Smith LLP, San Francisco, CA; Michael K. Brown, Reed Smith LLP, Los Angeles, CA for defendants
    Case Number: D69645

    Motion to dismiss amended product liability claim involving medical device denied where the amended complaint asserted new facts further explaining the similarities between the product-in-suit and other products subject to consumer complaints and recalls.

  • Springsteen v. Proctor & Gamble Co.

    Publication Date: 2021-08-04
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Consumer Products
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerry Springsteen, Rochester, MN, pro se plaintiff.
    for defendant: N/A
    Case Number: D69493

    After screening a pleading filed by a pro se plaintiff, the court dismissed the complaint, but gave plaintiff leave to file an amended complaint.

  • Arcelik A.S. v. E.I. DuPont De Nemours & Co.

    Publication Date: 2021-06-02
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Scirica
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin Garrett Minegar, Jones Day, Pittsburgh, PA: Lawrence D. Rosenberg, Jones Day, Washington, DC; Jason J. Rawnsly, Richards Layton & Finger, Wilmington, DE for appellants.
    for defendant: John A. Sensing, Potter Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, DE for appellee.
    Case Number: D69414

    Denial of motion to vacate letters of request affirmed where the denial was not clearly erroneous as balance of factors of international comity weighed in favor of granting litigant's request to seek extraterritorial discovery from a non-party in support of its claims in the underlying legal action.

  • Rumbo v. Am. Med. Sys., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2021-05-12
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Rocanelli
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: R. Joseph Hrubiec, Napoli Shkolnik LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Brian M. Rostocki, Justin M. Forcier, Reed Smith LLP, Wilmington, DE; Barbara R. Binis, Stephen J. McConnell, Whitney L. Mayer and Christian W. Saucedo, Reed Smith LLP, Philadelphia, PA for defendant.
    Case Number: D69396

    The statute of limitations barred plaintiffs' pelvic mesh claim, so the court granted summary judgment in favor of defendant.