BUCKNER v. ALLERGAN PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.

No. 80-654.

400 So.2d 820 (1981)

Laura N. BUCKNER, Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. ALLERGAN PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., a Foreign Corporation, et al, Appellees, and Philips Roxanne Laboratories, Inc., et al, Cross-Appellants.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

July 1, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry Sands, P.A., Daytona Beach, for appellant/cross-appellee.

Carey N. Bos, of Rogers & Dowling, P.A., Orlando, for appellee Allergan Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Dudley D. Allen, of Milam & Wilbur, Jacksonville, for appellee/cross-appellant Armour Pharmaceutical Company.

Sutton G. Hilyard, Jr., and D. Andrew DeBevoise, of Pitts, Eubanks & Ross, P.A., Orlando, for appellee/cross-appellant Philips Roxanne Laboratories, Inc.

A. Craig Cameron, of Gosney, Cameron, Parsons & Marriott, P.A., Daytona Beach, for appellee Smith, Miller & Patch, a Division of Cooper Laboratories.

Ronald L. Harrop, of Gurney, Gurney & Handley, P.A., Orlando, for appellee E.R. Squibb & Sons, Inc.

Ted R. Manry, III, and David J. Kadyk, of MacFarlane, Ferguson, Allison & Kelly, Tampa, for appellee Upjohn Company.


COWART, Judge.

Appellant filed a complaint based upon strict liability in tort for bodily injuries resulting from alleged defective products against many manufacturers of prescription steroid drugs. Appellant, in her complaint, alleged various doctors prescribed corticosteroids for eye disorders without warning her of known dangerous side effects; that she took the drugs without knowledge of their danger and that as a result she developed aseptic necrosis of her femoral...

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