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State House votes to end ban on drug industry lawsuits

March 27, 2009

Led by Democrats, the House voted Thursday to repeal Michigan’s lawsuit immunity law for pharmaceutical companies.

 

Democrats said the bills would give those harmed by FDA-approved drugs legal recourse, while Republicans said they would create an antibusiness climate. House Democrats have made the state’s 13-year-old drug immunity law an issue since 2005, and used it as a campaign hammer that may have helped them pad their House majority in November.

 

Democrats call the lawsuit shield law the nation’s strictest protection for the drug industry. Similar attempts in the past died in the Republican-controlled Senate.

 

Read Article: Detroit Free Press

 

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