JOHNSON & JOHNSON v. KAUFMAN

No. A96A2468.

485 S.E.2d 525 (1997)

226 Ga. App. 77

JOHNSON & JOHNSON et al. v. KAUFMAN et al.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied April 4, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alembik, Fine & Callner, Lowell S. Fine, G. Michael Banick, Atlanta, Zoe I. Martinez, Dunwoody, for appellants.

Butler, Wooten, Overby & Cheeley, James E. Butler, Jr., Joel O. Wooten, Jr., Columbus, Downey & Cleveland, Y. Kevin Williams, Marietta, Smolar, Roseman, Brantley & Seifter, Yehuda Smolar, G. Grant Brantley, James I. Seifter, Atlanta, for appellees.


RUFFIN, Judge.

Gary Kaufman, individually and as executor of the estate of Amy Kaufman, his deceased wife, sued Johnson & Johnson ("J & J") and Janssen Pharmaceutica, Inc. ("Janssen"), alleging that his wife died as the result of taking the drug Hismanal, an antihistamine prescribed to her for allergies. Janssen, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of J & J, manufactures, markets and distributes Hismanal in the...

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