Accutane Case Remanded to Pennsylvania State Court

PHILADELPHIA — A Pennsylvania federal judge has remanded an Accutane injury case to state court, ruling that defendant Wolters Kluwer Health, a Pennsylvania resident, was not fraudulently joined.

On Aug. 29, Judge Gene E.K. Pratter of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania held that according to the Master Long Form Complaint filed in the Accutane mass tort litigation, Wolters Kluwer published the monograph that allegedly contained inadequate Accutane warnings.

In 2011, Norman Eaton, a Texas resident, filed a writ of summons against Hoffman LaRoche, Roche Laboratories and Wolters Kluwer in the Philadelphia County Court of Common …