Insights & Events

On October 26, 2007, Joe Hollingsworth presented Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corporation’s appeal to the Supreme Court of Kentucky in Gunderson v. Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corporation. Among the issues the court had agreed to hear: challenges to the trial court’s substantive and procedural application of KRE 702; challenges to the trial court’s failure to instruct on Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corporation’s learned intermediary defense; challenges to the trial court’s exclusion of evidence in mitigation of parental consortium damages; challenges to the trial court’s admission of one defendant’s cross-claim as substantive evidence against the other; challenges to the trial court’s admission of certain punitive damages evidence and refusal to instruct appropriately on punitive damages; and challenges to the sufficiency of the medical malpractice evidence presented at trial. The argument was one of the first presented via live feed by the Supreme Court of Kentucky. Links to archived video of the feed appear below.

Part 1: Joe Hollingsworth for the Appellants, Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corporation and Armstrong.

Part 2: Larry Franklin for the Appellees/Plaintiffs, Gunderson.

Part 3: Rebuttal by Joe Hollingsworth for the Appellants, Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corporation and Armstrong.