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This is an unedited question from a Torts practice session. Answer it, then read why each choice is right or wrong — every generated question comes with all four explanations, not just the correct one.
Sample question
Harmon, a pharmacist, filled a prescription for a customer with a drug that carried a known risk of severe liver damage if taken with alcohol. The drug's manufacturer had provided detailed warnings about this interaction in the package insert directed to prescribing physicians and dispensing pharmacists, but the label on the bottle given to the customer contained no such warning. The customer consumed alcohol while taking the drug, suffered acute liver failure, and sued the manufacturer for failure to warn. The manufacturer argues it adequately discharged its duty by warning the prescribing physician and the pharmacist.
Which of the following best describes the legal doctrine the manufacturer will rely on, and is that reliance likely to succeed?
A. Incorrect
Assumption of risk is incorrect here because it requires the plaintiff to have actual, subjective knowledge of the specific risk and to voluntarily encounter it. The customer was never warned about the alcohol interaction, so she lacked the knowledge necessary to assume that particular risk. This distractor misapplies assumption of risk by treating any voluntary conduct (drinking) as equivalent to knowing assumption of a specific undisclosed product risk.
B. Correct
The learned intermediary doctrine holds that a prescription drug manufacturer satisfies its duty to warn end users by providing adequate warnings to the prescribing physician or other qualified healthcare intermediary (here, also the pharmacist) who can then relay relevant information to the patient. This is the correct doctrine and the manufacturer's strongest argument. The closest distractor, choice C, misidentifies the doctrine as comparative negligence and incorrectly frames the customer as the 'sole proximate cause,' which ignores that the manufacturer's failure to warn the intermediaries adequately (or the intermediaries' failure to pass warnings along) may still be a proximate cause of harm. Choice B is best because it correctly names the doctrine and correctly conditions success on whether the intermediary warnings were actually adequate.
C. Incorrect
Comparative negligence is a damages-apportionment doctrine, not a complete defense in most jurisdictions, and it does not eliminate the manufacturer's liability for a failure to warn simply because the plaintiff also acted negligently. More fundamentally, this choice misidentifies the operative doctrine entirely — the manufacturer's primary defense is the learned intermediary doctrine, not comparative fault. Calling the customer the 'sole proximate cause' is also legally inaccurate when the manufacturer's omission was a but-for cause of the customer's ignorance of the risk.
D. Incorrect
The economic loss rule bars tort recovery for purely economic losses unaccompanied by physical injury or property damage; it has no application here because the customer suffered acute liver failure — a serious physical injury. Additionally, the economic loss rule does not govern the duty to warn in products liability cases. This distractor invents an inapplicable doctrine and mischaracterizes the nature of the claim.
Rule tested
Under the learned intermediary doctrine, a prescription drug manufacturer discharges its duty to warn end users of known risks by providing adequate warnings to the prescribing physician or other qualified healthcare intermediary; the intermediary then bears responsibility for communicating relevant warnings to the patient.
Concepts in this question
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