Good Testimony From Neutral Prescriber Leads To Summary Judgment In Plavix Litigation

We've posted a lot about Plavix recently but all in the context of the Supreme Court's decision in BMS v. Superior Court on personal jurisdiction. So, we don't blame you if you forgot that the product at issue in that case was Plavix. The product wasn't really at the heart of the analysis. Neither the plaintiff nor the defendant having any contacts with or relation to the jurisdiction was where all the action was. But that's state court. There is also a federal MDL concerning Plavix where the claims of plaintiffs who weren't trying to be "litigation tourists" are moving forward on the substance. But it doesn't look like they are moving very far if the recent decision in Armantrout v. Bristol-Myers Squibb, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 131334 (D.N.J. Aug. 17, 2017) is any indication.