{"id":1324,"date":"2024-06-12T20:46:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T20:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/zantac-defendants-delaware-could-see-mass-tort-surge-if-expert-testimony-decision-holds\/"},"modified":"2024-06-12T20:46:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T20:46:01","slug":"zantac-defendants-delaware-could-see-mass-tort-surge-if-expert-testimony-decision-holds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/zantac-defendants-delaware-could-see-mass-tort-surge-if-expert-testimony-decision-holds\/","title":{"rendered":"Zantac Defendants: Delaware Could See Mass Tort Surge If Expert Testimony Decision Holds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Defendants in Delaware\u2019s Zantac litigation have asked the state Supreme Court to review a Superior Court ruling\u00a0that allowed testimony from plaintiffs\u2019 experts, by claiming that the decision placed the state\u2019s <em>Daubert<\/em> standards at odds with those of federal courts and previous decisions in the jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Sanofi and Boehringer Ingelheim, represented by lead national counsel from\u00a0Dechert, Williams &amp; Connolly, DLA Piper, and King &amp; Spalding, respectively,\u00a0filed an <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/19IkJrJ8VbeV6Mn-eLljBFCMaQXhUukpH\/view?usp=sharing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">application<\/a> for interlocutory review on June 10. And in the application, they argued that, by allowing Superior Court Judge Vivian Medinilla\u2019s May 31 <a href=\"https:\/\/courts.delaware.gov\/Opinions\/Download.aspx?id=364910\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">order<\/a> to stand, it could\u00a0result in mass tort plaintiffs\u00a0flocking to Delaware.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendants in Delaware\u2019s Zantac litigation have asked the state Supreme Court to review a Superior Court ruling\u00a0that allowed testimony from plaintiffs\u2019 experts, by claiming that the decision placed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1521,1135,1874,1175,1876,801,652,1317,1875,1873],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-decision","tag-defendants","tag-delaware","tag-expert","tag-holds","tag-mass","tag-surge","tag-testimony","tag-tort","tag-zantac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}