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TATUM v. SCHERING CORP.

86-536-CER.

523 So.2d 1042 (1988)

Elma TATUM, as administrator of the Estate of Dixie V. Tatum, deceased v. SCHERING CORPORATION.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

March 18, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank M. Wilson of Beasley, Wilson, Traeger, Allen, and Mendelsohn, Montgomery, for appellant.

Jean-Pierre Garnier, Falls Church, Va., and Stanley A. Cash of Huie, Fernambucq & Stewart, Birmingham, for appellee.

MADDOX, Justice.

The United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama has certified these questions:

"1. Given that only punitive damages are recoverable in an Alabama wrongful death suit and that punitive damages are not apportionable among defendants according to fault, or for any other reason, and that the decedent's personal representative has already been paid for alleged wrongful acts of other defendants which resulted in the death of...

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