Supreme Court rules drug companies are exempt from lawsuits

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spurgeonryan said:
If anything, Doctors should be exempt. As long as they have not been found to be purposefully killing people. Would probably bring a lot of costs at hospitals down. Plus, they are just doing their job. No one is perfect.

That's what we have here. No one is allowed to sue doctors. If people suffer medical mishaps we have a compensation company that pays out based on the severity of the mishap, it's funded through general annual levvies on employers and employees, so basically a nationalised medical accident compensation insurance. If a Dr is negligent then there's the medical council disciplinary process and the criminal courts to deal with that side.

Forcing generics to use the same formulation and label warnings as the developer of the drug is mostly beneficial to patients as patients know that they are at no greater risk of either side effects or of receiving inferior products (i.e. less of the active ingredient). If a generic manufacturer wanted to develop a different formulation they'd have to go through the clinical trial and FDA approval process, whoch would make the genric more expensive, and thus defeat the purpose of being a generic. 99% of the time the same formulation/same warnings rule protects patients, but there's always going to be unfortunate cases where the opposite occurs. 

The one area where the law should be amended is in the warning  content of labels, generics should be able to add further warnings to labels, but to also have to reproduce with identical wording all warnings that appear on the developer's label.