Gaston V. Hunter

Many questions are raised in this appeal from a judgment resulting from a jury verdict for the defendants in a medical malpractice and products liability case. The central issues in the trial court related to the liability of the defendant doctors and the defendant drug manufacturers for physical ailments suffered by the plaintiff after the defendant doctors treated plaintiff's back by means of a relatively novel procedure known as "chemonucleolysis", which involved an injection of chymopapain, an investigational drug manufactured by the defendant drug companies.