Doctor's Testimony In Own Baycol Suit 'Inadmissible'

By Erin Marie Daly

Law360, New York (June 17, 2009, 12:00 AM ET) -- An appeals court has upheld the dismissal of product liability claims by an elderly doctor who partly relied on his own expert testimony to prove that he was injured by Bayer Corp.'s cholesterol-lowering drug Baycol, agreeing with a lower court that the testimony was inadmissible.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on Wednesday affirmed summary judgment in favor of the pharmaceutical giant on Dr. Edward Ronwin's claims that he developed a number of physical symptoms after he began taking...
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