Punitive Damages: FDA-Approved Drugs: HB 1093 (1991).

Colorado

Expands 1990’s prohibition against seeking punitive damages in cases in which FDA approved drugs are administered by a physician, to include medically prescribed drugs or products used on an experimental basis (when such experimental use has not received specific FDA approval) and when the patient has given informed consent.

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