Opinion

Ezeb v. Sandoz Pharmaceuticals

  • 2009 La.App. 4 Cir. 0821
  • 50 So. 3d 166
  • 2010 La. App. LEXIS 460
  • 2010 WL 1240616
Court
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Filed
Mar 31, 2010
Status
Published
On the bench
Belsome, Gorbaty, Love
Cited by
0 cases
Authority
More cited than 17.7%

The opinion

ON REHEARING GRANTED

PER CURIAM.

_|_jHaving resolved the timeliness issue, this Court vacates its original opinion.

The Louisiana Supreme Court held that a defendant’s self-serving deposition testimony, which contained contradictions, created a credibility determination for the factfinder because the defendant was attempting to overcome a presumption of his own negligence. Hines v. Garrett, 04-0806, p. 5 (La.6/25/04), 876 So.2d 764, 768 . Although Dr. Dowling’s deposition testimony is not being used as an attempt to alleviate his fault, his deposition testimony from 2006, demonstrated that he would have prescribed Clozaril even if the warning was different. However, in Dr. Dowl-ing’s 1993 deposition, Dr. Dowling stated that he did not think anyone knew that what happened to Mr. Ezeb could happen as a result of ingesting Clozaril. This Court recognizes that the two depositions could be contradictory, which requires a credibility determination by the factfinder. For this reason, this Court reverses the previous affirmation of the trial court. Therefore, the trial court’s granting of Novartis’ summary judgment is reversed.

REVERSED.

BELSOME, J., Concurs in the Result and Assigns Reasons.

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