Your General Causation Methodology Must Be Specific – The Class Action Implications of Price v. Lundbeck A/S

Ethan Schiff is a featured writer for the Ontario Bar Association's Class Actions section, where he details the impacts of a recent decision of the Ontario Superior Court (the Court) to dismiss a class action against a pharmaceutical company.

In Price v. Lundbeck A/S, 2022 ONSC 7160, the Court "held that a general causation common issue must be tailored to the specific type of harm alleged, and that the alleged harms cannot be stated in overly general terms." Future class actions "regarding negligence in use of pharmaceuticals and chemicals" could see a higher threshold for causal evidence targeted towards specified harms.

The full article is available on the Bar Association of Ontario's website.