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$38M birth defect verdict upheld on appeal

An appeals court on Tuesday affirmed a $38 million jury award for a girl born with spina bifida after her mother took the anti-seizure drug Depakote. Plaintiff Maddison Schmidt, who was born in 2003, alleged Abbott Laboratories didn’t do enough to warn doctors about the drug’s birth defect risks. The jury awarded Schmidt $15 million in ...

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