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Today the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court put a limit on the duty owed by physicians to third parties injured by their patients.  In Medina v. Hochberg, a patient suffered a seizure caused by a rare, inoperable brain tumor, while driving home from work.  The episode caused the patient to lose control of his car, striking … ...

The Texas Supreme Court issued its decision today in Centocor v. Hamilton, a case in which PLF filed this friend of the court brief in defense of medicine-maker Centocor, Inc. The case involved a legal doctrine called the “learned intermediary doctrine,” which says that when a consumer buys a product on the advice of an expert, … ...