Summary
In Besser v Squibb Sons (75 N.Y.2d 847, affg 146 A.D.2d 107), the plaintiff's mother, a Pennsylvania resident, ingested DES 33 years earlier while she was pregnant with the plaintiff who became ill with cervical cancer at age 20 while residing in New Jersey.
Summary of this case from Enright v. Lilly Co.Opinion
Argued January 11, 1990
Decided February 15, 1990
Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the First Judicial Department, Ira Gammerman, J.
William D. Fireman and Stuart A. Schlesinger for appellant.
David J. Fleming, Robert M. Dato, Nancy Lucas Haniotis, Barry M. Epstein, Marc S. Klein and William B. Korman for E.R. Squibb Sons, Inc., respondent.
Russel H. Beatie, Jr., Samuel J. Abate, Jr., Susan E. Kelty and Charna L. Gerstenhaber for Eli Lilly Company, respondent.
Jay P. Mayesh and William A. Rome for Upjohn Company, respondent.
Order affirmed, with costs, for the reasons stated in the opinion by Justice Joseph P. Sullivan at the Appellate Division ( 146 A.D.2d 107).
Concur: Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges SIMONS, KAYE, ALEXANDER, TITONE and HANCOCK, JR. Taking no part: Judge BELLACOSA.