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Pa. Supreme Court Says Drug Companies Can Be Sued For Marketing Dangerous Drugs
Posted on 23 Jan 2014 by Tom Moylan

PHILADELPHIA — (Mealey’s) Pennsylvania law allows drug companies to be sued if they fail to stop marketing drugs known to be unreasonably harmful, and the manufacturers are not immune from being sued for damages for lack of due care, the Pennsylvania... Read More

Tags: et al. v. Wyeth , drugs , Pondimin , Wyeth , phentermine , PPH , diet drug , American Home Products Corp. , dexfenfluramine , Food and Drug Administration , Catherine Lance , marketing drugs , Pfizer , Pennsylvania Supreme Court , Patsy Lance , Pennsylvania , FDA , fen-phen , fenfluramine , National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act , Redux , Litigation , valvular heart disease , primary pulmonary hypertension

Conn. Federal Judge Awards $1.7 Million In Punitive Damages In Prempro Breast Cancer Case
Posted on 5 Aug 2013 by Tom Moylan

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — (Mealey’s) Applying Connecticut law governing punitive damages in product liability actions, a Connecticut federal judge on Aug. 5 awarded $1,769,932 to a woman and her husband, who in April 2012 were awarded $4 million... Read More

Tags: Margaret B. Fraser , et al. v. Wyeth , punitive damages , Wyeth , Pfizer , product liability , Margaret Fraser , compensatory damages , Litigation , Inc. , hormone replacement therapy , Connecticut , Prempro