IN RE DES CASES

No. CV 91-4986.

789 F.Supp. 548 (1992)

In re DES CASES. Angela SILVERI, Plaintiff, v. The ABBOTT LABORATORIES, American Pharmaceutical Co., Beecham Laboratories, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Boyle & Co. Pharmaceuticals, Burroughs-Wellcome & Co., Inc., Carnrick Laboratories, Inc., previously known as G.W. Carnrick Co., Inc., Chase Chemical Co., Chromalloy American Corp., Cooper Holdings, Inc., previously known as Cooper Laboratories, Dart Industries, Inc., previously known as Rexall Drug Co., Inc., the Dexter Corp., successor in interest of Invenex Laboratories, Emons Industries, Inc., Key Pharmaceuticals, Kremers-Urban Co., now known as Mequon Co., Lannett Co., Inc., Eli Lilly and Co., Lincoln Laboratories, Inc., Malinckrodt, the S.E. Massengill Co., McNeilab, Inc., Merck & Co., Inc., Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Premo Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Inc., previously known as Lemmon Co. of N.J., Inc., Rite Aid Corp., Rorer Group, Inc., Rowell Laboratories, Inc., Schering Corp., Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc., formerly known as Reid-Provident Laboratories, Inc., Stanley Drug Products, Inc., a division of Sperti Drug Corp., E.R. Squibb & Sons, Inc., the Upjohn Company, West-Ward, Inc., now known as Industrial Way Liquidating Corp., White Laboratories Corp., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. New York.

April 10, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard L. Finz, Stuart Finz, Gregory Green, Law Offices of Leonard L. Finz, P.C., New York City, for plaintiff.

Robert D. Wilson, Jr., Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, New York City, for defendants Abbott Laboratories and McNeilab, Inc.

Edward Patrick Reardon, Staten Island, N.Y., for defendant American Pharmaceutical.

John Budlong, Stafford Frey Cooper & Stewart, Seattle, Wash., and Richard J. O'Keefe, O'Keefe, Kline & McCaffrey, White Plains, N.Y., for defendant Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals.

Emmett J. Ganz, Law Offices of Emmett J. Ganz, Beverly Hills, Cal., and Charles M. McCaghey, Ryan, Ryan, Johnson, Clear & DeLuca, Stamford, Conn., for defendant Boyle & Co.

George I. Greene, Leslie McHugh, Lester Schwab Katz & Dwyer, New York City, for defendants Burroughs-Wellcome & Co. and Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals.

Margaret M. Johnson, Martin, Clearwater & Bell, New York City, for defendant Carnrick Laboratories.

Carro, Spanbock, Kaster & Cuiffo, New York City, for defendant Chase Chemical.

Vincent J. Aceste, Sally A. Zullo, David E. Worby, P.C., White Plains, N.Y., for defendant Cooper Laboratories.

A. Edward Grashof, Sheila Annmarie Moeller, Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts, New York City, for defendants Dart Industries and Rexall Drug Co.

Richard Bakalor, Quirk & Bakalor, P.C., New York City, for defendant Dexter Corp.

Eric D. Statman, Anderson, Kill, Olick & Oshinsky, New York City, for defendant Emons Industries.

Henry R. Simon, White Plains, N.Y., for defendants Key Pharmaceuticals and West-Ward, n/k/a Industrial Way Liquidating Corp.

Mark G. Lionetti, Clark, Ladner, Fortenbaugh & Young, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant Kremers-Urban Co.

Solin, Breindel & Berger, Albany, N.Y., for defendant Lannett Co.

Russel H. Beatie, Jr., Charna L. Gerstenhaber, Kenneth King, Brown & Wood, New York City, for defendant Eli Lilly and Co.

John Sullivan, Michael Yoeli, Gordon & Silber, P.C., New York City, for defendant Lincoln Laboratories.

Gwen Pollack, Laurence V. Senn, Jr., Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon, New York City, for defendant Malinckrodt.

Theodore V.H. Mayer, Hughes Hubbard & Reed, New York City, for defendant Merck & Co.

Edward S. Weltman, Schneck Weltman Hashmall & Mischel, New York City, for defendants Premo Pharmaceuticals Laboratories and Chromalloy American Corp.

David P. Schaffer, Kelly, Tobias & Turner, New York City, for defendant Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Pharmaceuticals (sued herein as Rorer Group).

John M. Byrne, Elizabeth MacEwen, McMahon, Martine & Merritt, New York City, for defendant Rite Aid Corp.

John C. Maloney, Jr., Sheryl Schwartz, Pitney, Hardin, Kipp & Szuch, Morristown, N.J., for defendant SmithKline Beecham Corp. (sued herein as Beecham Laboratories and S.E. Massengill Co.).

Peter L. Herb, Gladstein & Isaac, New York City, for defendants Solvay Pharmaceuticals, successor in interest of Reid-Provident Laboratories, and Rowell Laboratories.

Marc S. Klein, William B. Korman, Sills Cummis Zuckerman Radin Tischman Epstein & Gross, New York City, for defendant E.R. Squibb & Sons.

Dorothy A. Phillips, Rivkin, Radler & Kremer, Uniondale, N.Y., for defendant Stanley Drug Products.

David M. Covey, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, June A. O'Hea, Jay P. Mayesh, William A. Rome, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, New York City, for defendant The Upjohn Co.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

WEINSTEIN, District Judge.

Plaintiff Angela Silveri, who is allegedly suffering from adenocarcinoma, moves for permission to introduce proof to show that Eli Lilly and Co. ("Lilly") is responsible for the defective design of DES. Sage v. Fairchild-Swearingen Corp., 70 N.Y.2d 579, 523 N.Y.S.2d 418, 517 N.E.2d 1304 (1987). In Sage, an airline employee was injured by a ladder hanger. The...

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