Friday, September 15, 2006
Wyeth not negligent in hormone drug trial
Article on cnnmoney.com -- Wyeth not negligent in hormone drug trial:
Jurors in the first trial against Wyeth's hormone replacement drug
Prempro found
that the company was not negligent and did adequately
warn patients and doctors
of the risk of cancer.
The lawsuit,
the first of 5,000 filed against the company to go to trial, charged
that
Wyeth had been negligent in testing, manufacturing and marketing
the hormone
replacement therapy.
Lawyers for plaintiff Linda Reeves, 67, had also argued that the
company failed to
warn users and doctors about the need for regular
screening for cancer and heart
problems.
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/mass_tort_litigation/2006/09/wyeth_not_negli.html
I'm curious whether the jury found against the plaintiff on liability, causation, or both. Or was it a general verdict? Since this was the first verdict in the Prempro litigation, I'd think that both Wyeth and the many plaintiffs' lawyers handling HRT cases would be very interested to know the jury's basis for the verdict. Reeves was one of the bellwether cases selected for trial in E.D. Ark. (the MDL court) in order to give some indication of how the thousands of others might play out.
Posted by: Howard Erichson | Sep 16, 2006 2:29:14 PM