Court Upholds Vioxx Class Action Against Merck (Vioxx law firm)

Court Upholds Vioxx Class Action Against Merck (Vioxx law firm)

Court Upholds Vioxx Class Action Against Merck
FOX News - NEW YORK — A New Jersey appellate court Friday upheld a judge's decision to certify a national class action against Merck & Co. ( MRK ) Inc. for some cases involving the drugmaker's withdrawn pain medicine Vioxx , attorneys representing plaintiffs
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Vioxx Jury Splits in Suit by 2 Heart Patients
Washington Post - A New Jersey jury ordered Merck & Co. yesterday to pay $4.5 million in the case of a man who blamed the firm's Vioxx painkiller for his heart attack, but rejected a similar claim from a second plaintiff who had taken the drug for less time and
Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Merck urged to settle out of court in Vioxx class action
Australian Broadcasting Corp. - ELEANOR HALL: Lawyers in Australia are urging the drug company Merck to settle an Australian class action out of court after a US jury overnight awarded more than $6 million to an American man who had suffered a heart attack while using the
Source: www.abc.net.au

Business Briefing
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel - A New Jersey state jury Wednesday ordered Merck & Co. to pay at least $4.5 million to a New Jersey man, agreeing with his claim that the painkiller Vioxx caused his heart attack. Today, jurors in Atlantic City will consider whether to also award
Source: www.sun-sentinel.com

Seattle law firm told to pay $10.8 million
Seattle Post Intelligencer - For more than a decade, the downtown Seattle law firm Hagens Berman has been famous for filing high-profile, class-action lawsuits and extracting millions of dollars from prominent companies over everything from problematic software and poisonous
Source: seattlepi.nwsource.com

Merck ex-CEO denies hiding Vioxx data from FDA
Reuters - ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey (Reuters) - Merck & Co.'s (MRK.N: Quote , Profile , Research ) former chief executive denied the company hid data on Vioxx from regulators as he took the stand on Thursday before a jury that will decide whether to award
Source: today.reuters.com

Corpus Christi, TX
Corpus Christi Caller - DALLAS- Vought Aircraft Industries Inc., which lost $230 million last year, plans to cut 600 jobs, mostly at its Dallas aircraft-parts assembly plant. HOUSTON- Enron Corp.'s outside law firm conducted a monthlong investigation of complaints raised by
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National Business
Stamford Advocate - A jury found Merck & Co. liable on Wednesday for one of two former Vioxx users' heart attacks in a split verdict that awarded $4.5 million in damages to one of the plaintiffs. The Nasdaq composite and Standard & Poor's 500 indexes closed at five-year
Source: www.stamfordadvocate.com

Trouble Breathing
Forbes - Frank A. Dittig was recovering from a nasty bout of pneumonia in the spring of 2004 when he developed a wheeze that wouldn't go away. For this his doctor prescribed Advair, the hot- selling asthma inhaler, though Dittig didn't have asthma and never
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In Brief
Modesto Bee - NEW YORK — Merck & Co. suffered a significant legal setback Friday when an appeals court ruled a nationwide class-action lawsuit can go forward that allows health insurers and others to sue to recover the billions of dollars they spent on Vioxx
Source: www.modbee.com