Generic Ambien User’s Lawsuit Against Sanofi Survives Dismissal

May 6, 2013, 2:30 PM UTC

Part of a former Honda Motor Co. employee’s suit seeking to hold brand-name Ambien maker Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC responsible for job-ending bizarre behavior allegedly caused by a generic drug equivalent survived dismissal April 30 in a federal court in Alabama (Stewart v. Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC, N.D. Ala., 4:13-cv-00539-VEH, 4/30/13).

Alabama resident Daniel Stewart Jr. used zolpidem, a generic version of the sleeping drug, Oct. 3, 2011, while on a business trip in Indiana. In his complaint, he alleged that without knowing what he was doing and suffering from amnesia, he left his hotel room, naked, and knocked ...

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