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Lead Attorney in $4.85 Billion Vioxx Settlement
 

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Merck Sets Vioxx Deal

The Birmingham News | November 10, 2007
Merck & Co. said Friday it will pay $4.85 billion to end thousands of lawsuits over its painkiller Vioxx in what is believed to be the largest drug settlement ever.

Beasley Allen settles Vioxx suits for $4.85 billion

CNN Money | November 9, 2007

Merck & Co. announced Friday that it will pay $4.85 billion to settle as claims by as many as 47,000 groups of plaintiffs over injuries linked to its blockbuster Vioxx painkiller.

$4.85B Vioxx Settlement Announced

| November 9, 2007
Plaintiffs' lawyers this morning announced that Merck & Co. has agreed to pay $4.85 billion to settle the majority of claims over injuries linked to its Vioxx painkiller.

$4.85 Billion Verdict Announced Largest in U.S. History

| November 9, 2007

After more than five years of hard-fought and difficult litigation, Merck has agreed to pay $4.85 billion, the largest pharmaceutical settlement in history, to resolve certain Vioxx-related claims involving plaintiffs who suffered a heart attack (including sudden cardiac death) or a stroke.

Merck Settles Vioxx Lawsuits for $4.85B

| November 9, 2007
Merck & Co. announced Friday that it will pay $4.85 billion to settle as claims by as many as 47,000 groups of plaintiffs over injuries linked to its blockbuster Vioxx painkiller.

District Court Orders New Trial in Vioxx Case Based on Misrepresentation by Mercks Expert Cardiologist

| May 31, 2007
Judge Eldon E. Fallon, presiding judge over the federal Vioxx consolidated proceedings, In re Vioxx Products Liability Litigation MDL (No. 1657), ordered a new trial today in Evelyn Irvin Plunkett v. Merck & Co. Judge Fallon, a United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana, found that there was clear and convincing evidence that during the second trial of the Irvin case, Merck's expert cardiologist, Dr. Barry Rayburn, misrepresented his qualifications to the Court and to the jury.

Judge Orders New Vioxx Trial

| May 30, 2007
A federal judge has ordered a third trial in a lawsuit by a woman who blamed Merck & Co.'s painkiller Vioxx for the heart attack that killed her husband.

Judge Hears re-retrial Request in Vioxx Case

| April 25, 2007
A woman whose husband died of a heart attack after taking the painkiller Vioxx deserves another chance to convince a jury that the drug caused his death because an expert witness in an earlier trial misstated his credentials.

Merck's Witness Stands by Opinion Under Cross Examination

| March 21, 2007
Merck's defense witness Jerome Cohen, M.D., a St. Louis cardiologist, said his ties to pharmaceutical companies did not influence his opinion that Vioxx did not cause Patricia Schwaller's death.

Merck hid Drug's Risks, Lawyer says in Vioxx Trial

| March 1, 2007
Pharmaceutical giant Merck ignored warnings and tried to cover up risks associated with its blockbuster painkiller Vioxx, a lawyer Wednesday told the jurors in the case of a Granite City woman who died suddenly of a heart attack after spending 20 months on the drug.