Product Liability Litigation Involving Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices: How Has It Changed in the Big Data/Social Media Era?

Product Liability Litigation Involving Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices: How Has It Changed in the Big Data/Social Media Era?

With the increased availability of published data and social media reports detailing patient outcomes and serious adverse events, product liability matters have become qualitative and quantitative quagmires for companies in the life sciences industry. Core questions about liability and causation often turn on the results of sophisticated epidemiologic and biostatistical analyses. In addition, health economics models concerning the medical costs associated with various health states can be central to estimating damages. This panel of expert epidemiologists, biostatisticians, and health economists will discuss some of the key issues that arise in these cases, and the data analytics that can now be brought to bear in such matters.