A plaintiff alleging that a contaminated polio vaccine caused a brain tumor is out of luck in the New Jersey courts, which have deferred to a federal judge’s dismissal of the same claims.
Collateral estoppel blocks the product liability suit against Pfizer Inc., the successor company to the vaccine’s manufacturer, American Home Products Inc., the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in Gannon v. American Home Products, A-80-10.
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