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Article: Jury awards $9M to heart-attack patient in Vioxx case.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- April 11, 2006
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Byline: Thomas Ginsberg
Apr. 11--ATLANTIC CITY -- An Atlantic County jury concluded today that Merck & Co. Inc. "wantonly and willfully" hid key risk information about Vioxx from federal regulators, a big blow to the drug maker's effort to fend off thousands of personal injury cases. Merck immediately said it would appeal.
The punitive damages were set at $9 million, bringing the total award to $13.5 million including the jury's earlier compensatory verdict for a 77-year-old New Jersey heart-attack patient, John McDarby, of Park Ridge, N.J.
Wall Street apparently took some solace that the verdict was not as large as allowed under New Jersey law ...