WYETH-AYERST LABORATORIES v. CALDWELL

No. 2003-IA-01390-SCT.

905 So.2d 1205 (2005)

WYETH-AYERST LABORATORIES, Robert F. Cooper, II, M.D., Jerry A. Fortenberry, M.D., Calvin T. Hull, M.D., Louisa Lawson, M.D., and Harold Wheeler, M.D. v. Doris CALDWELL, Susan H. McCarty, Jim H. McCarty, Jr., Julia Campbell, Archie Campbell, Carolyn Winters, Bobby G. Winters, Macy Houston and John F. Houston, III.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

January 27, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred L. Banks, Jr., Luther T. Munford, James W. Shelson, Kenneth W. Barton, William M. Gage, Jackson, Amanda Clearman Waddell, J. Robert Ramsay, Hattiesburg, attorneys for appellants.

Charles Richard Mullins, Merrida Coxwell, Jackson, Lawrence E. Abernathy, III, Laurel, G. Sean Jez, Scott Anthony Love, Houston, TX, Keith Morgan, attorneys for appellees.

Before WALLER, P.J., GRAVES and DICKINSON, JJ.


WALLER, Presiding Justice, for the Court.

¶ 1. Doris Caldwell and six other plaintiffs joined their claims against Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories and their prescribing physicians in Jones County Circuit Court. The plaintiffs generally claim injuries resulting from fraudulent warnings and misrepresentations regarding the potential risks of the drugs Pondimin and Redux. Wyeth moved to sever plaintiffs' claims. The trial court denied the motion. After initially denying...

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