Mich. Accutane Case Won't be Heard in N.J., Supreme Court Says

TRENTON, N.J. - A Michigan man who sued the manufacturers of Accutane for allegedly causing him to become suicidal after taking the drug cannot bypass his state's strict pharmaceutical liability laws and bring his claim in the manufacturers' home state of New Jersey, that state's Supreme Court has ruled. Rowe v. Hoffman-La Roche Inc, et al., No. A-19 Sept. Term 2006 (N.J. Sup.).

In a 5-2 vote the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled March 29 that Michigan has the greatest interest in applying its law to the failure-to-warn claims asserted by Robert Rowe, who stopped taking Accutane three months before …