Big Defeat for Merck, Maker of Vioxx

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Posted by Joe SaundersAugust 17, 2006 3:39 PM

A New Orleans jury returned a $50,000,000 award to a 62 year old plaintiff who had taken Vioxx for 31 months. Mr. Barnett had suffered a heart attack four years earlier and stopped taking the drug shortly before Vioxx was pulled from the market. The jury found that Merck failed to adequately warn doctors about Vioxx's potential harmful side effects and risks for cardiac incidents.

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