Some Lawyers Seek Changes in Vioxx Settlement
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Several plaintiffsâ lawyers have asked the judge overseeing the $4.85 billion settlement to allow them to keep some of their clients outside the settlement while others accept it.
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Drugs giant Merck & Co. which pulled its blockbuster painkiller Vioxx from shelves in September, is about to become the target of hundreds of plaintiffs' lawyers, the New York Times reported on Friday.
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Merck & Co Inc  said on Thursday the New Jersey Supreme Court has reversed a lower court ruling that had granted nationwide class-action status to insurers seeking reimbursement for past spending on Vioxx, the drugmaker's withdrawn arthritis treatment.
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Hundreds of lawsuits filed against Merck, blaming its painkiller Vioxx for deaths and injuries, will be consolidated in a federal court in New Orleans.
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The company says it is discussing a settlement with the Justice Department.
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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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Patients taking Vioxx for pain relief have many alternatives, and the popular drug's withdrawal from markets should have little practical effect on clinical care.
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Drugmaker Wyeth WYE.N said on Tuesday  it is in talks with plaintiffs' lawyers to develop a structure  to settle cases of users of recalled diet drugs "fen-phen" who  opted out of a nationwide legal settlement.
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When news broke Sept. 30 that Merck pulled its blockbuster anti-inflammatory pain reliever Vioxx, a collective sigh was heard across the nation.
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Hundreds of lawyers who claim that people were injured or killed by the painkiller Vioxx plan to lay groundwork for a legal assault against the drug's maker, Merck.
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The problems with Vioxx, taken off the market last week, raise questions about the Food and Drug Administration's safety review process. Observers say longer clinical trials should be required.
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Proposed legislation could spell changes across the pharmaceutical world.
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Last weekâs dramatic withdrawal of the COX-2 inhibitor rofecoxib (Vioxx) is discussed in this weekâs lead editorial in THE LANCET, which comments that more vigilant drug licensing is vital to prevent the endangering of patientsâ health.
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Compensation claims over the MRSA superbug may rise as lawyers use workplace laws to pursue hospitals.
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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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A class-action lawyer's lenient plea deal sends a bad message.
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A Brooklyn lawyer announced plans yesterday to file the first federal lawsuits against Merck &amp; Co. on behalf of New Yorkers who developed heart troubles using the arthritis drug Vioxx.