Glaxo Settles Avandia Lawsuits - OrlandoSentinel.com: "GlaxoSmithKline agreed to pay about $460 million to resolve a majority of lawsuits alleging the company's Avandia diabetes drug can cause heart attacks and strokes, people familiar with the accords said.
Glaxo, the U.K.'s biggest drugmaker, agreed to settle about 10,000 suits for an average of at least $46,000 apiece, the people said. The company had been facing more than 13,000 suits alleging Glaxo hid the drug's heart-attack risk, according to a UBS AG analyst. The settlements come as Glaxo is set to face its first Avandia trial in federal court in Philadelphia in October.
'This is exceptionally good news given the market has discounted $6 billion liability,' for Avandia litigation, said Gbola Amusa, an analyst at UBS in London. 'We had outlined an absolute worst-case scenario where $500,000 per case would have to be paid.'
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