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EISENMENGER v. ETHICON, INC.

No. 93-034.

871 P.2d 1313 (1994)

Helen Kirwin EISENMENGER, an incapacitated person, by Veronica EISENMENGER, her Guardian and Conservator, Plaintiff, Respondent and Cross-Appellant, v. ETHICON, INC., a New Jersey corporation, Defendant and Appellant, and James E. Mungas and Montana Deaconess Medical Center, Defendants and Cross-Respondents.

Supreme Court of Montana.

Decided March 24, 1994.

Rehearing Denied April 14, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maxon Davis, Cure, Borer & Davis, P.C., Great Falls; Charles F. Preuss, Preuss, Walker & Shanagher, San Francisco, California, for Defendant and Appellant.

Norman L. Newhall, Alexander, Baucus & Linnell, P.C., Great Falls; Susan J. Rebeck, Susan J. Rebeck, P.C., Great Falls (Eisenmenger); James E. Aiken and Tracy Axelberg, Jardine, Stephenson, Blewett & Weaver, P.C., Great Falls Mungas, for Respondents.

Neil E. Ugrin, Ugrin, Alexander, Zadick & Slovak, Great Falls, (Montana Deaconess Medical).

TURNAGE, Chief Justice.

Helen Eisenmenger suffered serious injury after undergoing surgery in which suture material manufactured by defendant Ethicon, Inc., was used. She filed this product liability claim against Ethicon in the District Court for the Eighth Judicial District, Cascade County. Ethicon appeals a $2.3 million judgment entered against it. We affirm.

We restate the dispositive issues as:

1. Whether...

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