ABEL v. ELI LILLY & COMPANY

Docket No. 77-3421.

94 Mich. App. 59 (1979)

289 N.W.2d 20

ABEL v. ELI LILLY AND COMPANY

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided December 5, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charfoos & Charfoos (by Lawrence S. Charfoos, Thomas H. Bleakley and J. Douglas Peters) (Hayim I. Gross, of counsel), for plaintiffs.

Shook, Hardy & Bacon (by Lane D. Bauer, Leo P. Dreyer and Larry R. O'Neal) and Dickinson, Wright, McKean, Cudlip & Moon (by John E.S. Scott and Robert S. Krause), for defendant Eli Lilly and Company.

Kitch & Suhrheinrich (by James G. Smith), for defendant The Upjohn Company.

Plunkett, Cooney, Rutt, Watters, Stanczyk & Pedersen, P.C., for defendant E.R. Squibb and Sons, Inc.

Vandeveer, Garzia, Tonkin, Kerr & Heaphy, P.C. (by Edmund M. Brady), for defendant William H. Rorer, Inc.

Seavitt, Wescott, Miller, Stowe & Magnuson (by Perry J. Seavitt and Gregory A. Reynolds), for defendants Merck & Company and Merck, Sharp & Dohme.

Richard D. Kramer, for defendant The Blue Line Chemical Company.

Lacey & Jones (by Kenneth M. Zorn), for Vale Chemical Company.

Johnson, Campbell & Moesta, P.C., for defendant Central Pharmacal Company.

Garan, Lucow, Miller, Lehman, Seward & Cooper, for defendant Rexall Drug Company.

Warner, Norcross & Judd (by Wallson G. Knack and John D. Tully), for defendant McNeil Laboratories, Inc.

Harvey, Kruse & Westen, P.C. (by James N. Martin), for defendant McNeil Laboratories, Inc.

Markle & Markle and James S. Goulding (of counsel), for defendants Schering Corporation and White Laboratories, Inc.

Sommers, Schwartz, Silver, Schwartz, Tyler & Gordon, for defendant Cole Pharmacal Company.

Jenkins, Fortescue, Miller & Nystrom, P.C., for defendant Burroughs Wellcome Company.

Lord, Bissel & Brook (by Hugh Moore) (Schureman, Frakes, Glass & Wulfmeier, of counsel), for defendant Abbot Laboratories.

Dice, Sweeney & Sullivan, P.C. (by David R. Getto), for defendant S.J. Tutag and Company.

Morbach, Cheatham & MacArthur, for defendant Kremers-Urban Company.

Before: R.M. MAHER, P.J., and BRONSON and A.E. MOORE, JJ.


R.M. MAHER, P.J.

Plaintiffs appeal as of right from an order of the Wayne County Circuit Court granting partial summary judgment in favor of defendants. This is a multiple-plaintiff, multiple-defendant products liability action involving a widely-distributed prescription drug. The trial judge ruled that each plaintiff, in order to state a cause of action sufficient to withstand a motion for summary judgment, must identify...

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