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Merck wins victims lose
Many experts believed that the recall of Vioxx will destroy Merck. After all the painkiller was actually a killer — it estimated that as many as 60,000 Americans died from Vioxx and over a 100,000 injured. The legal system, though, works in interesting ways, particularly if you hire great attorneys and victims have a weak [...]
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Pfizer Celebrex, Bextra lawsuits settlement
While Merck vowed to aggressively pursue Vioxx litigation and never settle a case, it turned out that as the company did all along, it was simply lying. After causing the painful death of a shocking 60,000 Americans, the company finally settled the Vioxx related personal injury lawsuits. Pfizer, the other company in the painkiller business, [...]