News:Supreme Court: Drugmakers Can be Sued

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(WikiDoc) - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Wednesday against drugmakers, saying consumers are entitled to sue pharmaceutical companies in a state court if they are injured by a drug. That decision affirms a $6.7 million Vermont Supreme Court ruling in favor of a woman who lost an arm to gangrene after being injected with an anti-nausea drug. Diana Levine went to a Vermont health clinic in 2000 to get treated for a migraine headache when a physician's assistant accidentally injected Wyeth's Phenergan drug into an artery, rather than a vein. Levine's lawyers aruged Wyeth should have put a warning about the dangers of injecting Phenergan on its label. Wyeth tried to argue Phenergan's FDA approval meant it fully complied with federal law.