A judge, and not the jury, is the better-positioned and appropriate decisionmaker to determine whether a failure-to-warn claim is federally preempted, the U.S. Supreme Court held today.
The Court also clarified the “clear evidence” standard governing an impossibility preemption defense to failure-to-warn claims.
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Least Burdensome Provisions: Concept and Principles: Guidance for Industry and Food and Drug Administration Staff, February 5, 2019, states that “medical device regulation should be least burdensome across the total product life cycle.” This means that manufacturers are expected to provide “the minimum amount of information necessary to adequately address a relevant regulatory question or issue through the most efficient manner at the right time.” The FDA observed that this approach should “ensure that patients have access to high-quality, safe and effective medical devices.”
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) sent an untitled letter to Eisai Inc. on October 11, 2018, based on a sales representative’s “false and misleading” oral statements during a lunch presentation about the safety of the antiepileptic medication Fycompa®, downplaying warnings, and engaging in off-label promotion of the product.
