AMERICAN HOME PRODUCTS CORP. v. SUMLIN

No. 2004-IA-02524-SCT.

942 So.2d 766 (2006)

AMERICAN HOME PRODUCTS CORPORATION; Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories Company, a Division of American Home Products Corporation; and A.H. Robins Company, Incorporated v. Myra SUMLIN.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

November 16, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William M. Gage, Kenneth W. Barton, Leann W. Nealey, Jackson, Robert D. Gholson, Laurel, attorneys for appellants.

William R. Couch, Richard Joseph Lajaunie, Hattiesburg, Thomas Q. Brame, Jr., attorneys for appellee.

Before SMITH, C.J., DIAZ and RANDOLPH, JJ.


SMITH, Chief Justice, for the Court.

¶ 1. This case comes to this Court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Smith County, Mississippi, by A.H. Robins Company, Incorporated, American Home Products Corporation, and Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories Company ("Wyeth").1 In this pharmaceutical liability case, plaintiff Myra Sumlin asserts a claim of heart valve regurgitation purportedly caused by Redux, a diet drug formerly marketed by Wyeth....

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