TAMPA, Florida (CNN) -- The mother of a teen-age boy who flew a Cessna aircraft into a Tampa office building filed a $70 million wrongful death and negligence lawsuit Tuesday against the manufacturers of a drug the boy took to treat acne.

Attorneys for Julia Bishop charge that Accutane, manufactured by Roche/Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., had severe psychiatric side effects on 15-year-old Charles Bishop. Bishop flew a single-engine plane into the 42-story Bank of America Plaza building in downtown Tampa on January 5, killing himself instantly. No one else was injured.

The boy had a prescription for Accutane, but investigators did not believe he had any of the drug in his system at the time of the crash.

Representatives from the pharmaceutical giant did not immediately respond to a request for a comment.

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Accutane has come under scrutiny of the Food and Drug Administration largely due to its links to birth defects.

The prescription can be given only in one-month intervals, and someone under 18 must have a parent or legal guardian sign a consent form after reading lengthy explanations about potential side effects.

Julia Bishop's lawsuit contends that Accutane is an unsafe drug and that Roche/Hoffmann-La Roche failed to adequately warn the public of a potential link to depression and suicide.

After the crash, police found a note in Charles' pocket expressing support for Osama bin Laden and the September 11 attacks, an opinion that family and friends said he had not expressed previously.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/04/16/te...uit/index.html

 

Yah I heard about that BS. So for a couple months he took the drug, had no side effects, none of his friends or family noticed a problem then out of the blue he does something really stupid and its the drugs fault. I guess the mother being told it can cause depression and signing the consent wasn't enough of a warning. Maybe they should have tatoo'd the freakin thing to her hand. People are starting to get really irrational about lawsuits. Everything from the lady who took McDonals to court over spilling coffee on herself to this lady in Florida. Sometimes natural selection needs to run its course. The current system laughs in the face of Darwin and his ideas of Evolution. At the current rate humans are 1,000yrs away from dragging our knuckles again.

 

you know the truth behind the mcdonalds thing? it's pretty nasty.

 

i wanna know

 

No. Please do tell.

 

well...apparently she got burned "down there" and she had to have some sort of reconstructive surgery on her naughty bits. which is why she sued for so much.

 

She was still the reason that she got burned. Doesn't matter if it was bad or not it was still her own damn fault for not realizing that things made from scalding hot water are usually hot and should be handled with care. Even a two year old should grasp the concept of hot things causing pain.

 

that is true. i agree it's her own fault.