Lilly Wins Ruling to Exclude Doctor’s Testimony on Zyprexa - Bloomberg.com

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By Patricia Hurtado and Margaret Cronin Fisk
May 13 (Bloomberg) -- Eli Lilly & Co. won its bid to prevent a “critical” expert witness from testifying on behalf of plaintiffs in cases involving the company’s Zyprexa drug."


.S. District Court Judge Jack B. Weinstein in Brooklyn, New York, said he will exclude the expert testimony of Dr. Stephen Hamburger. The doctor has offered testimony in some 20 individual Zyprexa cases, seven of which now have pending summary judgment motions before Weinstein, the judge said in a decision issued yesterday.

Hamburger was “shockingly careless about the facts in the cases he proposes to opine about,” Weinstein said. The doctor gave conflicting answers to questions about the “claimed causal link between Zyprexa intake and medical injury,” he said.