Merck wins Vioxx trial in Alabama state court
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - An Alabama state court jury on Friday handed Merck & Co.  its second victory this week in a Vioxx product liability trial, finding that the drugmaker did not hide the health risks associated with its withdrawn arthritis drug.
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Merck & Co.  said on Thursday withdrew its arthritis drug Vioxx globally after a colon cancer trial confirmed long-standing concerns the drug raises the risk of heart attack and stroke.
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Merck agreed yesterday to pay more than $650 million to settle charges that it routinely overbilled the government for its most popular medicines, the arthritis drug Vioxx and the cholesterol drug Zocor, cheating Medicaid out of millions of dollars in discounts over eight years.
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An Alabama state court jury  on Friday handed Merck & Co. its second victory this week in a  Vioxx product liability trial, finding the drugmaker did not  hide the health risks associated with its withdrawn arthritis  drug, or knowingly market a faulty product.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A Missouri woman is suing the maker of arthritis drug Vioxx over the 2002 death of her daughter. The suit was filed Friday by Caroline Nevels of Lexington, Mo.
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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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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A federal jury on Thursday found  that Merck & Co. Inc. was negligent and knowingly made  misrepresentations about its withdrawn pain medicine Vioxx, and  awarded $51 million to the plaintiff.
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NEW YORK - Should Merck have conducted a bigger trial to test the safety of its arthritis drug Vioxx? Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ) pulled Vioxx from the market two weeks ago, but questions about the
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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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A Martin County man is suing the maker of the prescription drug Vioxx and the Walgreens Corporation. Mark Tomlin alleges he had a heart attack after taking the drug to relieve pain from arthritis.
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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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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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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.
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Merck and Co. Inc. on Wednesday said a  New Orleans federal court will handle pretrial matters for  federal lawsuits filed by former users of Vioxx, who claim they  were harmed by the company's withdrawn arthritis drug.
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Merck &amp; Co. withdrew the popular drug Vioxx from the market in September, after data from a clinical trial supported claims the medication was associated with an increased risk of heart attack and stroke.
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NEW ORLEANS -- The next federal Vioxx trial, which opens here today, focuses on a man who began taking the painkiller after its label said that it could increase heart attack risks.