Celebrex class action lawsuit against Pfizer Canada
Phil writes, “I was involved in a motor vehicle accident and as a result was prescribed Vioxx and late Celebrex after Vioxx was recalled. I have other related complications with my health as well such as Hepatitus C and Hemacromotosis. Last December I suffered a GI bleed and as a result needed to be hospitalized and nearly died. I was prescribed Celebrex and told by my physician that I could take one Aleve with Celebrex for pain relief for my arthritis prior to the hospitalization. Since being prescribed Celebrex I have also needed high blood pressure medication over the course of four year as a result of Celebrex being the main drug that was prescribed to me for pain. I have been experiencing high blood pressure for several years now and believe that Celebrex is the cause. I want join the class action lawsuit against Pfizer.”
If you were prescribed Celebrex after it got a black box warning, then you may not have a strong case, because the company already changed the severity of the warning. Obviously, it is a very complicated legal situation and I am not an attorney myself. Secondly, I am not at all familiar with the law in Canada; my opinion is primarily about the situation in America. Why don’t you try to reach out to a personal injury lawyer in your area and see what you can do? Rather than going the class action lawsuit round, you might be better off filing a personal injury claim.
Merck Vioxx related investor lawsuits update
While Merck would like all the lawsuits related to its Vioxx recall mess go away — it has already settled the lawsuits related to 60,000 American deaths — it seems that the crimes that it committed are so serious that the courts are not letting it off the hook.
Since Merck also engaged in investor fraud when it deliberately hid the dangers of Vioxx and all the thousands of people who were either dying or experiencing heart attacks and strokes, the company has now been told by the US Supreme Court that a class action lawsuits by shareholders will go ahead. Investors lost billions of dollars when the Merck stock tanked after all the deaths were disclosed.
Merck Vioxx related shareholder lawsuits in Supreme Court
I think even a 6-year old understands that companies exist for the sake of shareholders, but not solely for them. They wouldn’t survive if they did not take good care of their customers, and in recent years, the trend has been to also be good corporate citizens.
Apparently, Merck exists even though it does not care for either. After Vioxx killed as many as 60,000 Americans (and many more all over the globe), Merck literally got away with murder. It paid a measly sum to families of dead Americans, and moved on.
As everyone knows, Merck is a company with no ethics at all. Not only did it hide the dangers of Vioxx from patients and physicians (actually it had a well-organized campaign to mislead them, that also included a publication of a faux medical journal that sang praises of Vioxx), it also hid the risks to the company from shareholders.
Vioxx recall related shareholder lawsuits went nowhere while the Merck stock which was trading at 40+ before the recall fell to 20s. Billions were lost in shareholder value.
Thankfully, the US Supreme Court will now here if Merck also misled its investors.