NJ jury awards plaintiff $20 mln in Vioxx case
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A New Jersey jury found on Monday that Merck & Co. Inc.'s withdrawn arthritis drug Vioxx was responsible for a plaintiff's heart attack and it awarded $20 million in compensatory damages.
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Merck &amp; Co.'s painkiller Vioxx contributed to an Idaho postal worker's heart attack, a jury in Atlantic City ruled Monday, reversing the verdict in the man's first trial and awarding him and his wife $20 million in damages.
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In a major legal victory for Merck &amp; Co. in its massive Vioxx litigation, New Jersey's Supreme Court yesterday rejected a potential class-action lawsuit that could have cost the drug maker up to $18 billion.
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A federal jury on Thursday found  that Merck & Co. Inc. was negligent and knowingly made  misrepresentations about its withdrawn pain medicine Vioxx, and  awarded $51 million to the plaintiff.
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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N.J. -- New Jersey's Supreme Court rejected a huge class-action lawsuit against drugmaker Merck & Co. over its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx on Thursday, reversing two previous lower-court decisions.
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More than 3,000 former users of Merck & Co's  withdrawn Vioxx pain drug have already signed up to take part in a $4.85 billion settlement deal that a federal judge on Friday declared was in the best interests of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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The $50 million compensatory damage award in a federal Vioxx case this month was "grossly excessive," and a new trial must be held to decide how much drugmaker Merck &amp; Co. must pay a retired FBI agent who suffered a heart attack after taking the painkiller, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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A federal judge overturned a $50   million award handed down by a jury against Merck & Co. Inc.   MRK.N earlier this month in a case of a former FBI agent who   had blamed the withdrawn painkiller Vioxx for his heart attack.
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Roche Holding lost the first of 400 lawsuits claiming its Accutane acne drug causes inflammatory bowel disease when a jury awarded an Alabama man $2.62 million.
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Both the city and state of New York sue Merck over Vioxx payments
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TRENTON -- Lawyers defending plaintiffs alleging theyâve been injured or have had loved ones die because of ingesting Vioxx are meeting this week to possibly plan a coordinated nationwide legal assault against the pharmaceutical giant Merck.
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TORONTO - A Toronto-based law firm filed another class-action lawsuit Friday against drug maker Merck and Co. Inc., the makers of the arthritis drug Vioxx.
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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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Walgreen, the largest US pharmacy chain, agrees to pay $20m in a discrimination suit brought by black workers.
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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 & Co Inc  said on Thursday the New Jersey Supreme Court has reversed a lower court ruling that granted nationwide class-action status to insurers seeking reimbursement for past spending on Vioxx, the drugmaker's withdrawn arthritis treatment.
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NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 26  Â A federal jury ruled in favor of Merck on Tuesday in a lawsuit over the painkiller Vioxx, finding that there was not enough evidence to link the drug to a Kentucky manÂs heart attack.