We’ve been around the preemption block a few times – we know what happens when the mainstay claim in prescription medical product liability litigation, that being inadequate warnings, gets preempted.
We first saw it in DTP vaccine litigation. We made a little headway with preemption and plaintiffs responded with “design’ claims based on non-FDA-approved formulations. It took the Vaccine Act to bury those.
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