Heygood, Orr & Pearson: Los Angeles Court orders Watson Pharmaceuticals to produce documents, provide depositions in fentanyl patch death lawsuit.

Attorneys from Dallas' Heygood, Orr & Pearson are announcing a Los Angeles Superior Court ruling that will require executives from Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc and its subsidiary companies to testify under oath and produce key documents as part of a lawsuit over the death of a 37-year-old woman who died while using the company's fentanyl patch. Attorney Michael Heygood represents the parents of Nicole Bristol, who died on 9 Feb 2008, hours after applying a fentanyl patch manufactured by Corona, CA-based Watson Pharmaceuticals. Fentanyl is a powerful narcotic painkiller that is often applied by a time-released adhesive patch. The drug is up to 100 times more powerful than morphine and …