GREENE v. ABBOTT LABS.


148 A.D.2d 403 (1989)

Albert Greene, as Administrator of The Estate of Susan Greene, Deceased, Appellant, v. Abbott Laboratories et al., Respondents, et al., Defendants

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

March 30, 1989


On March 9, 1969, one month after her 18th birthday, plaintiff's intestate, his daughter Susan, died allegedly from a type of cancer which had developed three years before, brought on because her mother had taken the drug diethylstilbestrol (DES) while pregnant with Susan in 1950 and 1951. Defendants-respondents are all manufacturers of this drug.

Plaintiff, as Susan's administrator, commenced this action in June and July 1987 asserting three causes of action for...

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