Pfizer Inc. must pay about $75 million in punitive damages to an Illinois woman who developed cancer after taking one of the drugmaker’s menopause treatments, people familiar with a sealed verdict in the case said. A Philadelphia jury ordered Pfizer’s ...

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Pfizer Inc. doesn’t have to pay more than $27 million in punitive damages to an Arkansas woman who blamed her breast cancer on the company’s menopause drugs, an appeals court ruled in ordering a new trial on the award. The ...

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Wyeth and Pfizer Inc. should pay more than $27 million in punitive damages to an Arkansas woman over the drugmakers’ mishandling of menopause drugs linked to her breast cancer, a lawyer told an appeals court. A federal judge in Arkansas ...

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In a rare move, the U.S. Supreme Court made plaintiffs’ lawyers happy Wednesday with its 6-3 decision allowing individuals to bring state claims against drugmakers. Dirk Vandever, a plaintiffs’ attorney with the Popham Law Firm in Kansas City, called the ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that patients can sue drugmakers for failing to provide adequate safety warnings, upholding a $7 million award to a musician who lost her arm after being injected with Wyeth’s Phenergan nausea treatment. The justices, voting ...

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