Judge Says Physician Properly Joined in Texas Couple's Mirapex Claim

DALLAS, Texas - A Texas judge has granted a couple's motion to remand, finding that that the defendants were incorrect in removing the plaintiffs' case on the basis that the wife's physician was improperly joined in their claim that Mirapex caused her compulsive gambling behavior. Rice, et al. v. Pfizer Inc., et al. No. 3:06-cv-0757 (N.D. Texas).

On July 7, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas Judge Barbara M. G. Lynn granted Jacquie and Harold Rices' motion, finding that the Rices' medical malpractice claim against the wife's physician, Dr. Bill Ray Lee, arises out of the same …