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| Warning: FDA approved drug | | Date Created: Jan 12, 2005, 08:45 PM |
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| Let's see. A drug can't be marketed and sold unless it's certified and approved by the FDA as being safe and effective. After spending millions of dollars in developing the drug and submitting it for approval, you then market it for what it was intended. Someone decides that they've been harmed by the drug, or more properly, a plaintiff attorney decides that there is money to be made off the perception, real or alleged, that the drug caused harm. How is the company who legally marketed the drug liable? Shouldn't it be the FDA who approved it? Why is this not how it works? The answer is one of the fundamental problems with the US tort litigation system. It also reveals the farce of warnings as a means of protection from lawsuits. |
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