West Virginia Senate Bill 671 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 22 2010 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-02-22 - To Health and Human Resources
Pending: Senate Health and Human Resources Committee

The purpose of this bill is to codify the learned intermediary doctrine, which recognizes: (1) That prescribing physicians are in a superior position to impart drug warning to patients and provide independent medical decisions as to whether use of the drug is appropriate for treatment of a particular patient; (2) that drug manufacturers lack effective means to communicate directly with each patient; and (3) that imposing a duty to warn upon drug manufacturers would unduly interfere with the physician-patient relationship. This section is new, therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.

Relating to products' reliability claims

Sen. Roman Prezioso [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-02-22		To Health and Human Resources
2010-02-22		To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2010-02-22		Introduced in Senate
2010-02-22		To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2010-02-22		Filed for introduction

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
55	7	23a	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=671&year=2010&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill