STAUB v. EASTMAN KODAK CO.


726 A.2d 955 (1999)

320 N.J. Super. 34

Joseph STAUB and Dorothy Staub, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, Alcon Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Inc., Alcon (Puerto Rico), Inc., Lafayette Pharmaceutical, Inc., and Lafayette Pharmacal, Inc., Defendants-Respondents.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided April 5, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wayne D. Greenstone, Newark, for plaintiffs-appellants (Greenstone & Greenstone, attorneys; Mr. Greenstone, on the brief).

Thomas J. Alworth and George A. Joseph, of the Chicago bar, admitted pro hac vice for Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, IL, for defendants-respondents (Shanley & Fisher, attorneys, Morristown, and Kirkland & Ellis, attorneys; Mr. Alworth, Mr. Joseph, and Ellen Therese Ahern, Chicago, IL, on the brief).

Before Judges PRESSLER, BROCHIN and STEINBERG.


The opinion of the court was delivered by BROCHIN, J.A.D.

Plaintiffs Joseph Staub and Dorothy Staub, his wife, allege that Mr. Staub suffers from arachnoiditis, a debilitatingly painful inflammation of the membrane surrounding the spinal cord. He claims to have developed this condition as the result of having been injected with Pantopaque, a radiopaque substance used as a contrast medium for myelography, a process for the x-ray visualization of the spinal cord. Defendants...

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