Plaintiff's Inability to Identify DES-Containing Product Warrants Summary Judgment, Lilly Maintains

BOSTON - Eli Lilly responded to a plaintiff's opposition to its motion for summary judgment in a case involving alleged DES-related injuries, arguing that the plaintiff failed to proffer sufficient evidence to prove that her mother ingested a product manufactured by the Indiana-based company. Ellen J. Dean v. Eli Lilly & Co., No. 02-CV-11078 (RGS) (D. Mass.).

The drug maker's reply brief in support of its motion for summary judgment contended that two statements submitted by plaintiff Ellen Dean did not show that the product ingested by her mother in 1956 was manufactured by Lilly. In addition, Dean has …