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SHANKS v. UPJOHN CO.

Nos. S-3729, S-3760.

835 P.2d 1189 (1992)

Sharon L. SHANKS, Personal Representative of the Estate of Harvey Hale Rice, Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. The UPJOHN COMPANY, Appellee/Cross-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

June 26, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Powell, Hughes, Thorsness, Gantz, Powell & Brundin, Anchorage, and Joseph S. Slusser, Hughes, Thorsness, Gantz, Powell & Brundin, Fairbanks, for appellant/cross-appellee.

Theodore M. Pease, Jr., Burr, Pease & Kurtz, Anchorage, Richard L. Josephson, Baker & Botts, Houston, Tex., and Earl B. Austin, Baker & Botts, Dallas, Tex., for appellee/cross-appellant.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., and BURKE, MATTHEWS, COMPTON and MOORE, JJ.

OPINION

MOORE, Justice.

Shanks represents the estate of a decedent who committed suicide shortly after he began taking a prescription drug manufactured by The Upjohn Company. Shanks sued Upjohn under negligence, negligence per se, strict liability design defect, strict liability failure to warn, and breach of warranty theories. On Upjohn's motions for partial summary judgment, the superior court dismissed all but Shanks' strict liability failure to...

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