
another case of a man who blamed the drug for his heart attack. It also found that Vioxx was not the prime cause of that plaintiff's heart attack. Merck attorney Mike Brock said of the Alabama verdict, "The jury...

family's attorney of cherry-picking and misrepresenting Merck e-mails to... each lawsuit. On March 12, jurors in Atlantic City, N.J., found that Vioxx contributed to an Idaho postal worker's 2001 heart attack

there was no medical testimony indicating Vioxx had anything to do with the heart attack that Smith suffered in 2003. "That doesn't exist in this case," the attorney, Phil Beck, said in closing arguments Tuesday...

tort attorney, is no stranger to large pharmaceutical cases, having represented 200,000 women injured by silicone breast implants, patients inured by diet drugs Ephedra and Fen-Phen and heart attack victims due to...

heart attack. "The verdict today finally achieves justice for Mr. H...product," his attorney, Christopher Seeger, said in a statement. "The jury recognized the very serious heart risks of Vioxx, risks ...

have restricted sales of Vioxx, a former blockbuster drug with peak annual sales of about $2.5 billion, through the state's Medicaid program if officials had known more about the drug's risks of heart attack and ...

of heart attack and stroke in patients taking it for more than 18 months. Merck has won most of the Vioxx cases that have since gone to trial and...), it will be a home run," said Samuel Davis, an attorney with ...

of heart attack, it was not reasonably fit for the purpose of being used for the relief of arthritic pain." But the judge rejected Peterson's claim... disease long before it yanked Vioxx from the market in 2004. Jessup...

an attorney wit the law firm Reed Smith, which is representing Merck. &...; One of the plaintiffs in the case, Arizona resident Lawrence Appell, alleged his use of Vioxx for 18 months resulted in a heart attack at ...

attorney Ted Mayer said in a statement.