Wyeth Denied Summary Judgment in Missouri HRT Case

KANSAS CITY - A Missouri federal judge has denied Wyeth LLC summary judgment on failure-to-warn and strict liability claims brought in a hormone therapy drug action, finding the record contains admissible expert testimony sufficient to establish the existence of a causal link between HRT and the plaintiff’s breast cancer. Lemmon v. Wyeth LLC, et al., No. 4:04-1302 (E.D. Mo.).

On July 11, Senior District Judge E. Richard Webber of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri further ruled that the learned intermediary doctrine does not defeat the claims because there is a question of fact as to …