close an approximation as possible between a DES manufacturer's liability for damages and its individual responsibility for the injuries caused by the products it manufactured.
*1076 The judgment of the Court of Appeal is affirmed.
Lucas, C.J., Broussard, J., Panelli, J., Arguelles, J., Eagleson, J., and Kaufman, J., concurred.
Petitioners' application for a rehearing was denied May 4, 1988.
NOTES [*] Reporter's Note: To conserve space the 68 additional cases affected are identified by each case's first named party and its corresponding superior court number. Bollinger (No. 778103); Carroll (No. 783481); Cody (No. 766388); Coleman (No. 775613); Cristian (No. 772720); Dikeman (No. 806395); Dozoretz (No. 770401); Duckett (No. 794467); Fahn (No. 824311); Franco (No. 778208); Galimidi (No. 768709); Gallego (No. 775745); Gamble (No. 770949); Hanover (No. 768705); Hemphill (No. 775910); Jones (No. 773455); Krall (No. 802622); Kurz (No. 822160); Lavenberg (No. 804730); Lawton (No. 768707); Lee (No. 768299); MacGregor (No. 766251); Marrott (No. 798467); McKinney (No. 821458); Martinez (No. 830795); Mesa (No. 820534); Minix (No. 775915); Montoro (No. 778101); Morgan (No. 773846); Ochoa (No. 840054); Paige (No. 782241); Peebler (No. 770869); Phillips (No. 801418); Pinckert (No. 813545); Pomeranz (No. 778150); Pomeranz (No. 778209); Pyes (No. 789737); Robbins (No. 767729); Roe (No. 768681); Rubado (No. 778098); Schuneman (No. 881353); Sharp (No. 802727); Sobieski (No. 765361); Stephens (No. 772195); Turiel (No. 768711); Valenti (No. 773711); Vecchiarelli (No. 775369); Wheeler (No. 801135); White (No. 751588); Young (No. 791871); Collins (No. 803692); Benas (No. 774328); Deerfield (No. 774515); Henderson (No. 776404); Khoshnevis (No. 776615); Lopez (No. 778084); McLeod (No. 777796); Martin (No. 777113); Kane (No. 778191); Culver (No. 778194); DeRosa (No. 778193); Myers (No. 777605); Myers (No. 777606); Thomas (No. 802268); Smith (No. 842156); Ward (No. 805308); Ward (No. 832548); Chapman (No. 835540).
[1] Section 402A provides: "(1) One who sells any product in a defective condition unreasonably dangerous to the user or consumer or to his property is subject to liability for physical harm thereby caused to the ultimate user or consumer, or to his property, if [¶] (a) the seller is engaged in the business of selling such a product, and [¶] (b) it is expected to and does reach the user or consumer without substantial change in the condition in which it is sold. [¶] (2) The rule stated in Subsection (1) applies although [¶] (a) the seller has exercised all possible care in the preparation and sale of the product, and [¶] (b) the user or consumer has not bought the product from or entered into any contractual relation with the seller."
[2] One commentator has pointed out that at the 1961 meeting Dean Prosser proposed an exemption even broader than that suggested by the motion to exempt prescription drugs from strict liability. (Page, Generic Product Risks: The Case Against Comment k and for Strict Tort Liability (1983) 58 N.Y.U.L.Rev., 853, 863, 866.)
[3] We discuss in footnote 11, post, page 1069 plaintiff's assertion that comment k does not apply to all prescription drugs but only to those found to