Friday, October 12, 2007

Wyeth - Prempro: jury "not kindly disposed to Wyeth at all"

A jury levied a $134.5 million judgment against pharmaceutical giant Wyeth in a lawsuit filed by three Nevada women who claimed the company's hormone replacement drugs caused their breast cancer.

It was the largest award to date against the Madison, N.J.-based company, which faces about 5,300 similar lawsuits across the country in state and federal courts.

"These are very large numbers for compensatory damages," said Howard Erichson, a law professor at Seton Hall University. "It has to be troubling for Wyeth because dollar figures like these suggest the jury entirely accepted the plaintiff's version of the story and was not kindly disposed to Wyeth at all."

Hmmm. Why might that be, we ask?

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