A $7.75 million jury award over a death blamed on Merck's Vioxx drug will stand after a judge let the company's request for a new trial expire. Merck made the request after learning that, shortly before the trial, one of the jurors took a cash loan from the widow of Leonel Garza, who died in 2001 at age 71 after taking the since-withdrawn painkiller. Garza's attorneys had touted the verdict as the first case in the country where a jury found short-term usage of Vioxx to be causative in heart attacks.
March 09, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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A $7.75 million jury award over a death blamed on the Merck & Co. drug Vioxx will stand after a judge let the company’s request for a new trial expire.
Merck made the request after learning that shortly before the trial, one of the jurors took a cash loan from the widow of Leonel Garza, who died in 2001 at age 71 after taking the since-withdrawn painkiller.
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