WALKER v. JOHNSON & JOHNSON VISION PRODUCTS, INC.

Docket No. 175013.

552 N.W.2d 679 (1996)

217 Mich. App. 705

Kim WALKER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. JOHNSON & JOHNSON VISION PRODUCTS, INC., Defendant/Third-Party Defendant/Appellee, and For Your Eyes Only, Inc., Defendant/Third-Party Plaintiff, and First Optometry Care Centers, Inc., and Dr. Irving Adler, Defendants.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided July 26, 1996, at 9:05 a.m.

Released for Publication September 13, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kelman, Loria, Downing, Schneider & Simpson by Alan B. Posner, Detroit, for plaintiff.

Dickinson, Wright, Moon, Van Dusen & Freeman by Robert S. Krause and Robert W. Powell, Detroit, for defendant.

Before MURPHY, P.J., and RICHARD ALLEN GRIFFIN and E.R. POST, JJ.


MURPHY, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiff filed suit against Johnson & Johnson Vision Products, Inc.1 when she suffered permanent injury to her right eye after using contact lenses manufactured by defendant. The trial court found that plaintiff's claims against defendant were preempted by the Medical Device Amendments of 1976 (MDA), 21 U.S.C. § 360c et seq., to the Federal Food, Drug...

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