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John's Negligence Case: Pharmacare V.

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John could bring a negligence claim to court against PharmaCARE if he can show that the drug firm had an responsibility to act with ordinary or reasonable care toward a person or the general public. In this case, PharmaCARE being a drug company marketed the drug because it believed the drug to be safe and therefore had an obligation to act with ordinary or reasonable care by clinically testing the new formulation before being distributed. The defendant's action did not meet this duty, and the defendant's action or failure to act caused harm to the plaintiff. PharmaCARE had a legal duty to ensure that its drugs were clinically tested even though it was a new formulation. In not conducting trials on the new formulation, PharmaCARE did not meet
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