IN RE REZULIN PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION

No. 00 CIV. 2843(LAK).

168 F.Supp.2d 136 (2001)

In re: REZULIN PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

October 16, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Seth Lesser, Javier Bleichmar, Bernstein, Litowitz, Berger & Grossman, New York City, for Plaintiff Charlie Fae Hopkins.

David Casso, Casso & Pettitt, L.L.P., McAllen, TX, for Plaintiff Berta Soto.

Mark W. Davis, Ron M. Feder, Davis & Feder, Gulfport, MS, for Plaintiff Beatrice Bell.

Peter D. Derbes, Frank A. Silvestri, John P. Massicot, Silvestri & Massicot, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff Chris Polehouse.

Andy D. Birchfield, Mark Englehart, Montgomery, AL, for Plaintiffs Flora Floyd and Lizzie White.

Charles M. Noteboom, Noteboom — The Law Firm, Hurst, TX, for Plaintiff Carol Brown.

Christopher E. Sanspree, Birmingham, AL, for Plaintiff Olivia Cochran.

David Klingsberg, Alan E. Rothman, Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, LLP, New York City, for Defendants Parke-Davis and Warner-Lambert Co.

Linda L. Maloney, D. Michael Wallach, Charles Florsheim, Wallach & Moore, P.C., Fort Worth, TX, for Defendant James R. Terry, M.D.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

KAPLAN, District Judge.

These eight actions are among the hundreds seeking recovery for personal injuries allegedly resulting from the use of the prescription diabetes medication Rezulin, formerly manufactured by defendants Warner-Lambert Co. and its Parke-Davis division, that have been consolidated here for pretrial proceedings by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. Each of these eight originally was commenced in a state court...

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