The metaphors and analogies just keep getting better in the latest Merck Vioxx trial.
The use of chess clocks to keep things moving along was novel.
But now in the closing arguments comes a poker analogy.
In his closing, plaintiff lawyer Robert Gordon acknowledged that his client was at risk for heart attack because of his diabetes, age, gender and low "good cholesterol," but that those factors were why he shouldn't have been on Vioxx in the first place.
He was on it because although Merck knew Vioxx was a risk for such users didn't disclose it, said Gordon, who used the metaphor of five playing cards - a 10, a jack, a queen, a king and an ace - to represent McDarby's risk factors, with Vioxx as the ace.
"Which one's responsible for the straight?" he asked, showing jurors blowups of the playing cards. "They all are."
philly.com
2 comments:
Metaphor, no e
Maybe Insider is French? That's how they spell it.....
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