It was the last blank space on the legal map – the only state with no precedent whatsoever. As we mentioned earlier in the week, Rhode Island has now fallen. There now remains no state in the country totally without precedent concerning the learned intermediary rule. Granted, for now it’s only an oral ruling in a transcript, but a federal judge has predicted that Rhode Island would join the overwhelming consensus of jurisdictions and follow the learned intermediary rule.
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