KARIBJANIAN v. THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSP.

Civ. A. No. 89-1891.

717 F.Supp. 1081 (1989)

Marijane C. KARIBJANIAN Individually and as Executrix of the Estate of George J. Karibjanian v. THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL et al.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

July 26, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin M. Krimsky, Steven E. Angstreich, Michael Coren, Patricia D. Wynne, Krimsky, Levy, Angstreich, Finney, Mann & Burkett, P.C., Daniel I. Murphy, Stradley, Ronon, Stevens & Young, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

Fredric L. Goldfein, Goldfein & Joseph, Philadelphia, Pa., for William H. Whitely, III, M.D.

Gary B. Cutler, Margolis, Edelstein, Scherlis, Sarowitz and Kraemer, Philadelphia, Pa., for Forest Laboratories, Inc.

Richard R. Galli, Philadelphia, Pa., for Thomas Jefferson University Hosp.

Michael P. Creedon, Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin, Philadelphia, Pa., for O'Neal, Inc.

Norbert F. Bergholtz, Susan L. Oppenheimer, Anthony J. Tamburro, Dechert, Price & Rhoads, Philadelphia, Pa., for Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co.

William A. Jones, Sherr, Joffe & Zuckerman, West Conshohocken, Pa., for Chromalloy American Corp. and Chromalloy Pharmaceutical Corp.


OPINION

JOSEPH S. LORD, III, Senior District Judge.

Plaintiff claims that her husband died as a result of exposure in 1956 to the substance Thorotrast, a form of thorium dioxide, with which he was injected during a diagnostic medical procedure called a cerebral arteriography.1 She alleges Thorotrast is an inherently unsafe product and that defendants knew or should have known that...

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