Order Dismisses Negligence, Products Claims in Celebrex Suit

NEW ORLEANS - Plaintiffs have consented to a motion to dismiss several causes of action in a Celebrex case after defendant Pfizer Inc. argued that they fell outside the state's products liability law and were not pled with sufficient particularity. Ward v. Pfizer, Inc., No. 04-3469 (E.D. La.).

In a Feb. 7 consent motion filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Pfizer moved the federal court to issue an order dismissing with prejudice all causes of action alleged by plaintiff Gloria Ward, who sued the company after she suffered a heart attack allegedly caused by her …