WHITE v. HOWMEDICA, INC.

No. 05-4093.

490 F.3d 1014 (2007)

Harold WHITE; Lois White, Plaintiffs/Appellants, v. HOWMEDICA, INC., A wholly owned subsidiary of Pfizer Drug Company, Defendant, MTG Divestitures, L.L.C., Defendant/Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: June 26, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Counsel who represented the appellant were C. Rabon Martin, Tulsa, OK, and Donald B. Fiedler, Omaha, NE.

Counsel who represented the appellee was Gerald L. Friedricksen and Carol Dan Browning, Omaha, NE, and Sarah G. Cronan, Louisville, KY.

Before COLLOTON, BEAM, and GRUENDER, Circuit Judges.


BEAM, Circuit Judge.

Harold and Lois White appeal the district court's1 dismissal of their suit on summary judgment because they lacked expert testimony to support their product liability claim. We affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

Lois White had a right knee replacement in 1996, performed by Dr. Stephen Noel. Parts of the prosthetic knee were manufactured by Howmedica. Over the next six years, White continued to have...

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