BESSER v. SQUIBB & SONS


146 A.D.2d 107 (1989)

Karen S. Besser, Appellant, v. E. R. Squibb & Sons, Inc., et al., Respondents

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

March 30, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William D. Fireman of counsel (Alfred S. Julien with him on the brief; Julien & Schlesinger, P. C., attorneys), for appellant.

Robert M. Dato of counsel (Barry M. Epstein, Marc S. Klein, Lindsay H. Lew, David J. Fleming, Nancy Lucas Haniotis, Russel H. Beatie, Jr., and Sanford N. Berland with him on the brief; Sills Cummis Zuckerman Radin Tischman Epstein & Gross, P. A., and Dickson, Carlson & Campillo, attorneys), for E. R. Squibb & Sons, Inc., and Russel H. Beatie, Jr., for Eli Lilly & Company, respondents. (One brief filed.)

William A. Rome of counsel (Jay P. Mayesh and Robin J. Stout with him on the brief; Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, attorneys), for The Upjohn Company, respondent.

KUPFERMAN, P. J., and WALLACH, J., concur with SULLIVAN, J; ASCH, J., dissents in a separate opinion.


SULLIVAN, J.

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