Tetuan v. A.H. Robins Co.

Robins (defendant) marketed the Dalkon Shield despite knowing by 1974 at the latest of its tendency to cause pelvic inflammatory disease, and continued misleading doctors and consumers about the risk for years afterward; Tetuan (plaintiff), whose device wasn't removed until 1980 after she developed PID beginning in 1979, sued and presented evidence Robins knowingly concealed the danger, and a jury awarded her $1.7 million compensatory and $7.5 million punitive damages.