Sanofi loses preemption argument ahead of cancer drug Taxotere bellwether trial
New Delhi: Federal law does not shield Sanofi from a woman's claim that it failed to warn her that its cancer drug Taxotere could cause permanent hair loss, a federal court has ruled, a victory for the plaintiff in the second bellwether trial scheduled in a multidistrict litigation over the drug.
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U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo in New Orleans on Friday rejected Sanofi's argument that it could not have revised its FDA-approved label, which did not warn of permanent hair loss, at the time of plaintiff Elizabeth Kahn's Taxotere treatment in 2008.
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