A VICTORY for patients. That’s how consumer advocates interpret a US Supreme Court decision that would have made it tougher to sue drug companies, had it gone the other way.
The case concerned Diana Levine, a Vermont-based musician who lost her hand after a botched injection of the anti-nausea drug in 2000. If the drug is injected into an artery instead of a vein, as it was in Levine’s case, it can cause gangrene.
Levine successfully sued which makes Phenergan, claiming the company did not do enough to warn of the drug’s dangers. Wyeth appealed on the…
