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| Personal
Injury Press Article Excerpt |
November 9, 2007 |
New York Times, "Merck Agrees to
Pay $4.85 Billion for Vioxx Claims" |
Three years after withdrawing its pain medication
Vioxx from the market, Merck announced today that it will pay $4.85 billion
to settle 27,000 lawsuits by people who contend they or their family
members suffered injury or died after taking the drug.
The settlement,
one of the largest ever in civil litigation, comes after nearly 20 Vioxx
civil trials over the last two years from New Jersey to California. After
losing a $253 million verdict in the first case, Merck has won most of
the rest of the cases that reached juries, giving plaintiffs little choice
but to settle.
The settlement will help put Vioxx behind Merck, as well
as sharply reduce its Vioxx-related legal defense fees, which are now
running at more than $600 million annually. Judges in Louisiana, New
Jersey and California, who oversee nearly all the lawsuits, had pressed
for a deal before a new wave of trials was scheduled to begin in January.
Learn more about Vioxx injuries and the lawsuits that led to the Vioxx settlement. |
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About Lieff Cabraser: We have
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represented clients in personal injury, wrongful death and
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Among the cases our personal injury
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AMO contact lens solution recall, the Peter Pan peanut butter recall, Guidant
pacemaker defects, SUV
rollover accidents, popcorn
workers lung injuries, and Ford
switch fires.
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