Law360, New York (August 01, 2012, 2:37 PM ET) -- When the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up the case of Rounds v. Genzyme Corp., No. 11-11025 (11th. Cir. Sept. 8, 2011) cert denied (U.S. Apr. 16, 2012) (No. 11-971), it let stand a ruling on the application of the learned intermediary doctrine, and passed up an opportunity to examine whether that doctrine could be altered in the context of a failure-to-train claim.
In Rounds, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that the plaintiff’s failure to train argument was subsumed by...