Bayer Wins Judgment in Neuropathy Case; Pharmacy Professor Not Qualified to Testify

Bayer Healthcare Corp. won summary judgment March 28 in a suit on behalf of a woman alleging the antibiotic Avelox caused her nerve damage after a federal trial court in Louisiana excluded her sole expert causation witness (Rhodes v. Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Inc., W.D. La., No. 10-1695).

Dr. Stephen Hamilton, a professor emeritus of pharmacy who acknowledged he was not licensed to diagnose illness, was not qualified to testify, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana said. Additionally, the court said his methods of determining that Avelox caused the plaintiff’s neuropathy were unreliable.

Cherie Ledet ...