One of three fen-phen lawyers on trial for allegedly defrauding their clients in a fen-phen case testified yesterday that he and a co-defendant deposited tens of millions of dollars of…
A legal assistant testified Friday that a lawyer accused of misappropriating fen-phen settlement money told her to destroy legal documents showing how clients were paid.
A Texas appellate court today has overturned a verdict against Merck & Co. concerning its popular Vioxx painkiller, eliminating the $26 million judgment that remained after a previous $253 million…
A recent law grad working on a massive diet drug case got a $3 million bonus and a Porsche when the civil fen-phen litigation settled for $200 million in 2001.
The Texas Court of Appeals has overturned a multimillion-dollar verdict against the maker of Vioxx, citing insufficient evidence that the painkiller caused the heart attack that killed the plaintiff’s husband.
A report released today by the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Legal Policy takes aim at a “business model” in asbestos cases that relies on “flimsy medical diagnoses” and seeks to…
So far, the world’s largest welding-equipment maker—Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc.—has escaped the fate of tobacco and asbestos companies by winning victory after victory against plaintiffs who claim its products cause…
Documents unearthed in lawsuits against the painkiller Vioxx show the drug’s maker, Merck, wrote article drafts about the drug’s performance but found outside physicians to be listed as authors.
Until it did $35,000 worth of damage to his boat, Lawrence Turner says, he had no idea that the ethanol-laced fuel sold at California marinas could erode fiberglass fuel tanks.…
A federal judge has awarded $412 million in additional fees to lawyers who sued the maker of the fen-phen diet-drug on behalf of thousands of plaintiffs.
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