Pro Te: Solutio – Spring 2017

It's Spring! In this issue of Pro Te, we do a little a "spring cleaning" to brush the dust off some familiar topics that we consider in day-to-day pharmaceutical litigation. In The Forgotten Element? Warnings Proximate Causation in Trial Practice, we take a fresh look at proximate cause, including how best to maximize testimony from prescribing physicians to reveal why a plaintiff has failed to satisfy this critical element of a products liability claim.

We also raise the shades to illuminate the new Cures Act with a two-part look at how the new law intends to enhance medical care and pave the way for new pathways to develop drugs and medical devices.

Consistent with the notion of spring cleaning, we all know how great it feels to find something you didn't know you had. In Wearable Technology Discovery in Personal Injury Cases: How Data From a Plaintiff's Wrist Can Make a Difference in the Courtroom, we discuss how electronics and technology (think FitBit®) can