A surge of lawsuits has swamped courthouses just ahead of the two-year anniversary of drug maker Merck & Co. pulling its blockbuster painkiller Vioxx from the market.
Saturday is the deadline for many users to sue the Whitehouse Station, N.J.-based drug maker over heart attacks, strokes or other harm they blame on Vioxx. Patients in 22 states, many heavily populated ones, can no longer sue Merck because they have a limit of two years on initiating personal injury lawsuits; four other states have one-year limits.
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