JANSSEN PHARMACEUTICA, INC. v. ARMOND

No. 2003-IA-00398-SCT.

866 So.2d 1092 (2004)

JANSSEN PHARMACEUTICA, INC., Johnson & Johnson, Joseph L. Faison, M.D., Edward Quinones, M.D., James Riser, M.D., and Billy Wansley, et al. v. Colantha ARMOND, et al.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

February 19, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donna Brown Jacobs, Christy D. Jones, John C. Henegan, Michael Bradford Hewes, Anita K. Modak-Truran, Jackson, Kari Louise Foster, Richard B. Goetz, Charles C. Lifland, Walter Estes Dellinger, Robert L. Johnson, III, Natchez, Amanda Clearman Waddell, J. Robert Ramsay, Hattiesburg, John Lewis Hinkle, Al Nuzzo, Ridgeland, Joe R. Colingo, Stephen Walker Burrow, Pascagoula, attorneys for appellants.

Richard Arthur Freese, Merrida Coxwell, Jackson, Richard O. Burson, Laurel, attorneys for appellees.

EN BANC.


COBB, Justice, for the Court.

¶ 1. Colantha Armond and 55 other Mississippi Plaintiffs ("Plaintiffs") filed suit in the Jones County Circuit Court for injuries they claimed were caused by a prescription medication, Propulsid. Named as defendants were the makers of Propulsid, Janssen Pharmaceutica, Inc., a New Jersey corporation, and its New Jersey based parent corporation Johnson and Johnson ("Janssen"); 42 Mississippi physicians ("Physicians") who allegedly...

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