Texas jury awards $32 million to Vioxx plaintiff after finding Merck liable
A Texas state jury on Friday found Merck liable for the death of a 71-year-old man who died from a heart attack within a month of taking Merck's painkiller Vioxx [Merck Vioxx Information Center website; JURIST news...
Jury awards $9 million to Vioxx plaintiff in long-term use lawsuit
A jury on Tuesday awarded $9 million in punitive damages to a New Jersey man who sued pharmaceutical giant Merck on grounds that his prolonged use of the drug Vioxx [Merck Vioxx Information Center website; JURIST news...
New Jersey court enters split verdict in long-term Vioxx use trial
A New Jersey state court jury on Wednesday rendered a split verdict after two days of deliberations in a joint trial that pitted two state residents who took the painkiller Vioxx [Merck Vioxx Information Center website; JURIST...
International Union of Operating Engineers Local #68 Welfare Fund v. Merck & Co., Inc., Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division, March 31, 2006 [upholding a trial court decision to certify a nationwide class of plaintiffs suing the drug maker...
New Jersey appeals court upholds Vioxx class action certification
A New Jersey appeals court on Friday upheld a July 2005 trial court decision to certify a nationwide class of plaintiffs suing the drug maker Merck for damages relating to its withdrawn drug Vioxx...
Opening statements began Monday in the second New Jersey state trial against New Jersey-based Merck over their distribution of the painkiller Vioxx . Although a New Jersey jury found Merck...
BREAKING NEWS ~ Federal jury finds Merck not liable in Vioxx case
AP is reporting that a federal jury has cleared Merck of responsibility in the death of a Florida man who had taken the popular painkiller Vioxx . The painkiller was recalled in 2004 after clinical...
The retrial of the first federal lawsuit against the manufacturers of Vioxx began Monday in New Orleans with jury selection. The case first went to trial last year, but was declared a mistrial in December...
JURIST Guest Columnist Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond School of Law says Merck faces new legal difficulties as a retrial of the first federal Vioxx case begins... The retrial of the first federal Vioxx case begins Monday with...
Jury selection is slated to begin Tuesday in Rio Grande City, Texas, in the latest wrongful death case involving the painkiller Vioxx . The family of Leonel Garza is suing Merck Pharmaceutical...
