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______ $400,000. Breakdown: $70,000 past wage loss; $320,000 future wage loss and $10,000 pain and suffering. - Wrongful Discharge Employment - Wrongful Discharge - Age Discrimination - Discrimination - Employment

Facts: Plaintiff, a 55 year old man, was employed as a salesman by Defendant Solvay Pharmaceuticals. Defendant allegedly discharged plaintiff for giving samples to physicians without following all of the proper procedures. A 33 year old employee had committed numerous infractions regarding samples and had received numerous warnings, but was not discharged. Plaintiff's supervisor had reti...
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______ Defense verdict - Medical Malpractice Product Liability - Nicorette - Fatality - Product Liability - Defense Verdict - Strict Liability - Wrongful Death

Facts: Plaintiff's decedent, a long-time heavy smoker and drinker, entered a smoking cessation research program administered by the defendant physician. Defendant physician prescribed nicorette for the decedent. (Nicorette is a nicotine-laced chewing gum manufactured by Defendant Dow.) The decedent was diagnosed as having nicotine intoxication inducing a comatose state. One month later ...
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______ $4 million against McNeil Pharmaceutical. Directed verdict for Burgerman and Smith. Breakdown: $1.5 million compensatory and $2.5 million punitives. - Products Liability Product Liability - Muscle Relaxant - Fatality - Punitive Damages - Wrongful Death

Facts: Plaintiff's decedent, a 75 year-old woman, was prescribed Parafon Forte DSC (chlorzoxazone), a muscle relaxant manufactured by Defendant McNeil, to treat numbness and stiffness in her hands. Defendant physicians read the drug's warnings and believed the drug to be safe. Two months thereafter decedent presented to the emergency room with a two-week history of progressively worsening...
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______ $250,000 - Pharmacy Ordered to Pay Damages to Woman Who Received Improper Instructions for Use of Antibiotic

Facts: A jury awarded $250,000 to a woman on her claim that she suffered long-term effects as a result of receiving incorrect information from a pharmacy on possible side effects of taking certain prescription medication with milk.

In October 2000, plaintiff was diagnosed with Lyme disease. Her doctor prescribed the antibiotic Doxycycline and she had the prescription filled at D...
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______ VERDICT - INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ACTION - PATENT INFRINGEMENT - PLAINTIFF ALLEGES THAT THE DEFENDANT INFRINGED UPON ITS PATENT RELATED TO THE DISCOVERY OF NATURAL CELL SIGNALING PHENOMENON IN THE HUMAN BODY.

In this intellectual property matter, the plaintiff, a biotechnology company, contended that the defendant pharmaceutical company infringed upon its patent related to the discovery of natural cell signaling in the human body. The defendant pharmaceutical company maintained that there was no infringement and disputed the validity of the plaintiff's patent.

The plaintiff, Ari...
- from The New England Jury Verdict Review and Analysis (46351) Login for DrugWatch Verdict

______ Defense verdict - Pharmaceuticals Delivery Company Loses Claim for Financial Losses

Facts: A Buncombe County jury rejected a pharmaceutical delivery company's claim for damages after finding the company's driver was partially responsible for the collision that led to the loss. A defense verdict was entered after 3 hours of deliberation.

Plaintiff Hospira, Inc., a pharmaceutical and medication delivery company, lost a shipment of medications due to a motor vehic...
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______ DISMISSED by plaintiff on date of trial with prejudice Pharmaceutical products liability - Morning sickness drug Bendectin allegedly causes birth defects in minor plaintiff

The subject action was brought on behalf of the minor female plaintiff, who was born with severe birth defects following a pregnancy during which her mother ingested the morning sickness drug Bendectin. The plaintiff filed suit against the defendant pharmaceutical company which manufactured the drug alleging that the drug was defective and caused the minor plaintiff's birth ...
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______ VERDICT Products Liability/Medical Malpractice - Wrongful Death - failure of defendant pharmaceutical company and defendant physicians to warn decedent of risks associated with medication Nicorette.

In this Wrongful Death action, the plaintiff alleged that the defendant Merrell Dow Pharmaceutical and the defendant physician failed to warn the decedent of the dangers and risks associated with the use of the medication Nicorette, prescribed to the decedent in conjunction with a broad office-based smoking cessation program. The plaintiff maintained that as a result, the ...
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______ VERDICT - PRODUCTS LIABILITY - ALLEGED WRONGFUL DEATH - ALLEGED BREACH OF IMPLIED AND EXPRESS WARRANTIES - ALLEGED NEGLIGENT MISREPRESENTATION - PLAINTIFF ALLEGES POLYMER GEL PATCH WAS IMPROPERLY USED IN TREATMENT OF DECEDENT'S HEART DISEASE.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff administratrix, the sister of the decedent, in which it was contended that the defendant pharmaceutical company breached implied and express warranties and negligently misrepresented the effectiveness and use of a polymer gel patch used in the transdermal delivery of nitroglycerin into the system in the treatment of heart disease.
- from The New England Jury Verdict Review and Analysis (14992) Login for DrugWatch Verdict

______ VERDICT - PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTSLIABILITY - ALLEGED FAILURE OF PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE LABELING ON ASPIRIN PRODUCTS GIVEN TO MINOR PLAINTIFF - PLAINTIFF ALLEGEDLY DEVELOPS REYE'S SYNDROME CAUSED BY INGESTION OF ASPIRIN - ACTION BIFURCATED AND TRIED INITIALLY ON ISSUES OF DIAGNOSIS AND CAUSATION.

This was a pharmaceutical products liability action brought by the plaintiff parents, individually, and on behalf of their minor son, who was eight years old when he was given two types of aspirin products manufactured by the defendants while he was suffering from chickenpox, as an alleged result of which he developed Reye's Syndrome. The plaintiffs contended that the defendant...
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