WASHINGTON AP – A day after the Supreme Court decided that federal rules do not protect drugmakers from state lawsuits, Democrats in Congress moved to overturn a decision that has shielded medical device companies from similar legal action.
On Wednesday the court turned away Wyeth’s claim that it could not be sued in state courts for its drug Phenegran, because it had already been approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration. The ruling upheld a $6.7 million award to a Vermont woman who lost her arm after she was improperly injected with the company’s nausea medication.
