The Learned Intermediary Rule In Consumer Protection Claims

We recently posted about a new California decision that was notable, in part, because it applied the learned intermediary rule to often-asserted (and equally often abused) California consumer protection statutes. See Andren v. Alere, Inc., 2016 WL 4761806, at *9 (S.D. Cal. Sept. 13, 2016) (where "misrepresentations and omissions claims are based on a failure to warn" the learned intermediary rule applies" to claims under the two major California consumer protection statutes (CLRA & UCL)). Since we haven't addressed this issue recently (one guest post from 2007), we thought it would be a good idea to examine more generally decisions that also apply the learned intermediary rule to consumer fraud claims. Andren is definitely not an outlier, although in a lot of states precedent is not extensive.