Vioxx Plaintiff Opposes Physicians' Renewed Motion to Dismiss

NEW ORLEANS - A woman in an Alabama Vioxx suit that was transferred to the MDL has opposed a renewed motion to dismiss filed by three physicians, saying that the medical negligence claims asserted against the non-diverse doctors are viable. In Re: Vioxx Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1657 (E.D. La.).

The memorandum response brief, filed April 3 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, says that Eunice Dabbs afforded her prescribing physicians fair notice of the claims asserted against them and that dismissing the doctors simply because they believe the plaintiff is not serious about …