Lawsuits filed against Pfizer Inc. claiming that Viagra caused men to get skin cancer have been transferred to a judge in San Francisco by a federal judicial panel.
Thursday’s order by the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation coordinated the cases, now totaling more than 100, for pretrial purposes to U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg. The suits, most of which were filed this week in the Northern District of California, have been brought by men diagnosed with melanoma or by the estates of those who died from the deadly form of cancer.
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