Judge throws out Vioxx award as excessive
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A federal judge on Wednesday threw   out a $50 million jury award against Merck & Co. Inc., calling   the compensation excessive for a former FBI agent who suffered   a heart attack while using Merck's Vioxx painkiller and saying   a new trial on damages was needed.
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A former drug sales representative won the award despite the judgeâs criticism that he should have brought the scheme to light earlier.
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A state judge has ordered O.J. Simpson to stop spending money he received for his unpublished book, "If I Did It," about the slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman.
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A New Jersey jury ruled that Merck failed to provide adequate warning about the risks of its Vioxx painkiller in one of two cases decided.
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Merck, the beleaguered US pharmaceuticals group, could be forced to pay out as much as $18bn (Â£9.7bn) over 10 years as a result of lawsuits linked to Vioxx, its controversial arthritis drug.
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NEW ORLEANS -- Merck &amp; Co. won the first reversal of a damage award over its Vioxx painkiller after a judge found a $51 million verdict Aug. 17 was ``grossly excessive."
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A lawsuit has been filed against the makers of Vioxx, and more are expected to follow. Olga Sanchez of Pharr is claiming that a July 2001 heart attack resulted from her using Vioxx
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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for the drug&#039;s maker told jurors during closing arguments Tuesday in New Jersey&#039;s latest case over the withdrawn painkiller.
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Merck &amp; Co Inc. on Thursday pulled its arthritis drug Vioxx off the market after a study showed it doubled the risk of heart attack and stroke, a move that sent its
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Drug giant Merck pulled its painkiller Vioxx because it increased the risk of heart attacks and strokes. Now the company may face thousands of lawsuits.
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Merck & Co. won the first reversal of a damage award over its Vioxx painkiller yesterday when a judge ruled that a $51 million verdict was "grossly excessive."
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A jury rejected the claims of an Alabama man who blamed the painkiller Vioxx for a heart attack in 2001.
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(CBS/AP) Vioxx, the blockbuster arthritis drug heavily promoted on TV and taken by tens of millions of people, was pulled from the market by its maker Thursday after a study found it doubled the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
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A US federal judge refused to allow a class-action lawsuit to proceed against Merck for health problems linked to its Vioxx pain medication, in a major victory for the pharmaceutical giant.
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New Jersey Supreme Court rules against the possibility of a national class action Vioxx lawsuit.
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MERCK faces a fresh barrage of lawsuits over its Vioxx arthritis drug that together could cost it as much as $18 billion (Â£9.8 billion) as hundreds of lawyers from across America will next week team up for a combined attack on the embattled drug
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Heather McCreery-Choi swallowed her daily dose of Vioxx, an arthritis medication, on Thursday morning, then flipped on the morning news to learn the drug was being pulled from the market because it doubles the risk of heart attacks and strokes after 18