EzriCare Stuck With Bacteria-Contaminated Teardrops Lawsuit

EzriCare LLC failed to convince a federal judge that a lawsuit alleging it failed to warn a customer about bacterial contamination in its artificial teardrops was a shotgun pleading that should get tossed.

The complaint “is not so deficient that EzriCare is unable to determine its role in the claimed offenses,” Judge David L. Bunning of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky said Monday.

Judith Gregory sued EzriCare and its India-based parent company, Global Pharma Healthcare Private Ltd., after the artificial teardrops caused sepsis from an infection. She says that following treatment, she’s had to have ...