Blair v. Abbvie Inc., 2025 WL. 57198 (W.D. Pa. Jan. 9, 2025), is, from the defense perspective, a favorable opinion dismissing (some with prejudice, some with leave to amend) all counts of the plaintiff’s complaint. The opinion is a bit odd, in a semi, unintentionally-ironic sort of way, because it faults the plaintiff for not supplying enough information, while the court’s opinion does not tell us what the product is, except it is some kind of implant. We’re guessing that the implant had something to do with the plaintiff’s eye, because the court observes in a footnote that the plaintiff included among the named defendants an eye care subsidiary ... that did not actually exist. Call it foreshadowing. In most of the complaint, there was no there there.
The Blair opinion follows Pennsylvania law to the effect that Restatement (Second) of Torts section...
