Jury Backs Merck in Vioxx Lawsuit
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A federal jury found that there was not enough evidence to link MerckÂs painkiller Vioxx to a Kentucky manÂs heart attack.
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Severely clogged arteries, obesity and other factors caused a 68-year-old grandmother&#039;s heart attack &amp;#151; not her use of Vioxx, lawyers for the drug&#039;s maker told jurors during closing arguments Tuesday in New Jersey&#039;s latest case over the withdrawn painkiller.
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A class-action lawsuit was filed yesterday in King County Superior Court on behalf of people who have used the anti-arthritis drug Vioxx.
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VANCOUVER - Just days after the arthritis drug Vioxx was pulled from store shelves, a class action lawsuit has been launched in BC Supreme Court alleging negligence by drug maker Merck and Co.
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HARLINGEN, Texas -- Attorneys for Merck &amp; Co. want to see bank and cellphone records that could show the extent of a juror's financial relationship with a plaintiff who won a $32 million verdict against the drug company in the death of a 71-year-old man who took Vioxx.
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ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey  - A New Jersey judge backed a jury's verdict that Merck & Co. properly warned doctors of the safety risks associated with its Vioxx painkiller prior to a Vioxx user's fatal heart attack, a court official said on Monday.
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More than 3,000 former users of  Merck & Co's  withdrawn Vioxx pain drug have already  signed up to take part in a $4.85 billion settlement deal that  a federal judge on Friday declared was in the best interests of  both sides.
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NEW ORLEANS -- Thousands of federal lawsuits claiming the drug Vioxx caused heart attacks and other conditions that killed or injured people cannot be pooled into one national class action, a judge ruled Wednesday.
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TRENTON, N.J. -- New Jersey's Supreme Court rejected a huge class-action lawsuit against drugmaker Merck & Co. over its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx on Thursday, reversing two previous lower-court decisions.
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BOSTON (CBS.MW) - A New Jersey state court has ruled that plaintiffs&#39; attorneys can depose Merck &amp; Co. chairman and chief executive officer Raymond Gilmartin in preparation for their lawsuits against the company over its recalled drug Vioxx.
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ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey  - A New Jersey jury found on Friday that Merck & Co.  failed to provide adequate warnings about health risks tied to its withdrawn arthritis drug Vioxx in one case, but decided that it gave adequate warning in another in two suits tried simultaneously.
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Law &amp; Order: Pharmaceutical Unit. Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ) Chief Executive Raymond V. Gilmartin may testify in some of the many lawsuits filed over the Vioxx recall, a company lawyer said.
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NEW YORK - The state and city sued Merck &amp; Co. Inc. yesterday, saying the drug maker defrauded Medicaid and other government insurance programs by hiding the risks of heart problems associated with its pain medication Vioxx.
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A New Jersey jury on Monday ordered Merck & Co.  to pay $47.5 million in damages after finding that the drugmaker's withdrawn arthritis drug, Vioxx, was responsible for a plaintiff's heart attack and that the company was reckless in promoting the drug.
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Merck &amp; Co. is not liable for the heart attack of a Kentucky man who took the company's Vioxx painkiller for less than five months, a federal jury said yesterday.
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US drugs giant Merck is to be fined an initial $20m in after losing a case brought by a user of its Vioxx painkiller.
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New Jersey Supreme Court rules against the possibility of a national class action Vioxx lawsuit.