HRT Insert, Video Insufficient to Provide Notice of Claim Against Wyeth

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - A trial court judge has ruled that a woman who developed breast cancer after ingesting a hormone replacement therapy product could not have had sufficient information to sue the product's manufacturer until a study linking HRT and cancer was made public. Briest v. Wyeth Inc., et al., No. MID-L-1045-06 (N.J. Super. Ct., Middlesex Cty.).

Middlesex County Superior Court Judge James D. Happas held Nov. 2 that even vague warnings contained in the insert for Premphase HRT were insufficient to put Laura Briest on notice of claims she may have had against Wyeth after she developed breast …