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Prescription For Fairness: A New Approach To Tort Liability Of Brand-Name And Generic Drug Manufacturers, Allen Rostron
Prescription For Fairness: A New Approach To Tort Liability Of Brand-Name And Generic Drug Manufacturers, Allen Rostron
Duke Law Journal
Over the past two decades, courts have consistently ruled that the manufacturer of a brand-name prescription drug cannot be liable for injuries suffered by those taking generic imitations of its product. This meant that a patient injured by a generic drug could have no remedy at all because in many instances the generic drug manufacturer would escape liability on the ground that it did not produce any information on which the patient's doctor relied. It was a perplexing dilemma. The generic drug manufacturer made the product that the plaintiff received, the brand-name manufacturer produced all of the information the patient's …