RICCI v. PARKE-DAVIS & COMPANY

No. 84-2426.

491 So.2d 1182 (1986)

Donna RICCI and Thomas Ricci, Appellants, v. PARKE-DAVIS & COMPANY, a foreign Corporation; Women's Awareness, Inc., a Dissolved Florida Corporation; Sandra Lee Yerger, R.M. F/K/a Sandra Nycum: and Edward Buonopane, M.D., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied August 20, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred Chikovsky, Hollywood and Jay M. Levy, of Hershoff and Levy, P.A., Miami, for appellant.

Richard A. Sherman, of Law Offices of Richard A. Sherman, Fort Lauderdale, for appellee Parke-Davis & Co.


STONE, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order granting summary judgment in favor of the defendant-manufacturer of birth control pills. Appellant had sued for personal injury resulting from an alleged failure to adequately warn.

It is undisputed that the appellee-manufacturer had a duty to warn the medical community with respect to any potential side effects from the use of its product. Buckner v. Allergan, 400 So.2d 820<...

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