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Jury: Merck negligent. Merck blamed for death in Vioxx suit; jury awards $253 million in damages. Drug giant to appeal.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Merck has been held liable by a Texas jury in the first lawsuit involving its former blockbuster drug Vioxx, in a case that could have a profound effect on thousands of other cases filed against the company.
Plaintiff Carol Ernst has won her lawsuit in Texas Superior Court in Angleton, which blames Vioxx for the 2001 death of her husband, Robert Ernst, a 59-year-old marathon runner and Wal-Mart worker who was taking the arthritis painkiller at the time of his death. Ernst died of a heart attack.
The verdict held Merck liable for the death. Jurors voted 10-2 in favor of Ernst.
The jury awarded more than $250 million in total damages -- $24 million to Carol Ernst for mental anguish and loss of companionship, and $229 million in punitive damages. Ernst's Houston-based lawyer, Mark Lanier, said the punitive-damages figure was based on "the money Merck made and saved by putting off their product label changes."
August 22, 2005: 12:33 PM EDT
By Aaron Smith, CNN/Money staff writer
Investigate Drugs Encountered in Medical Malpractice and Product Liability
for example:
Gentamicin is an antibiotic with high risks and should only be used when other antibiotics are ineffective. The risk-benefit decision must be weighed carefully. The risk for hearing impairment has been found in some studies to be as high as 25% of patients using the Gentamicin class of antibiotics! Gentamicin causes neurological damage to the inner ear and thus affects balance, vision, and can cause deafness; kidney damage. Have you suffered these symptoms? Are a you a wobbler?
http://www.drugintel.com
www.fda.gov/medwatch
Physicians responsibilities to patients regarding medications:
To warn the patient about the potential serious side effects
To make the proper recommendation to the patient based on risk benefit analysis
To be watchful for contraindications or symptoms that call for changing or ceasing use of this medication
