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DiROSA v. SHOWA DENKO K.K.

Docket No. D019451.

44 Cal.App.4th 799 (1996)

52 Cal. Rptr.2d 128

ELIZABETH DiROSA, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. SHOWA DENKO K.K. et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division One.

March 21, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Linda Zappe Flynn, McCormick & Cannon, Patrick A. McCormick, Jr., and Roy B. Cannon III and for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, F. John Nyhan, Walter R. Allan, Kimberly A. McDonnell, Cleary, Gottlieg, Steen, & Hamilton and Edwin B. Mishkin for Defendants and Appellants.

[Opinion certified for partial publication.*]

OPINION

NARES, J.

Both sides appeal a $1,050,000 judgment in this jury tried products liability action arising from the plaintiff's ingestion over a period of time of capsules of a substance called L-Tryptophan (LT) that was contaminated. Plaintiff developed an illness called eosinophilia myalgia syndrome (EMS), symptoms of which included very severe...

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