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19 Aug 2008, 6:03 am
Did Merck "endanger" patients in 1999 when it disguised a marketing program as a scientific trial of its now-withdrawn painkiller Vioxx? [read post]
1 Feb 2006, 8:10 pm
  Well, it looks like in the upcoming Vioxx trial in NJ that Merck's former CEO Raymond Gilmartin will appear to testify.Plaintiff lawyer Mark Lanier said he requested Gilmartin's presence and intends to call him because "when you have to look a jury in the eye it is harder to fudge. [read post]
21 Sep 2009, 3:33 pm
The first medical malpractice claim involving the drug Fosamax, from the Merck Pharmaceutical Company, could set a precedent for about 900 other state and federal claims against Merck. [read post]
14 Aug 2019, 7:25 am
However, ultimately the Irish Supreme Court placed weight on other factors which favoured the grant of a PI in Merck's favour, notably that Merck's SPC was valid pending the outcome of the invalidity hearing. [read post]
18 May 2007, 6:41 am
  This May 2007 list of "Vioxx Potential Product Liability Trial Dates" is posted on Merck's VIOXX ® (rofecoxib) Information Center. [read post]
28 Apr 2010, 5:37 am by Bryan Fears
  Merck shareholders lost a combined $28 billion overnight when problems with Vioxx became inescapable. [read post]
23 Feb 2019, 7:15 am by IPWatchdog
Last month, business news outlets were reporting that stock prices for pharmaceutical firms Pfizer and Merck took a tumble after financial analysts downgraded the performance of both firms over concerns about impending patent cliffs or exclusivity issues - although more recent reports paint a mostly promising picture for the companies, thanks to upcoming acquisitions. [read post]
17 Feb 2006, 9:58 am
[JURIST] AP is reporting that a federal jury has cleared Merck [corporate website] of responsibility in the death of a Florida man who had taken the popular painkiller Vioxx [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
12 Sep 2009, 9:43 am
But lead counsel for the 71-year-old plaintiff told us Merck ought to be worried about what the mistrial portends for the 900 other Fosamax cases it faces, given that pretrial rulings limited the evidence he was permitted to present. [read post]
18 Apr 2007, 1:46 pm
Two prominent U.S. heart experts recently stated that studies of Merck's new arthritis drug Arcoxia revealed risks that should prevent its FDA approval. [read post]
3 Jul 2007, 9:13 am
In the Wall Street Journal today is an article on a new Vioxx research study showing that the drug increased patients' risk of heart attack immediately after they began taking it, not, as Merck claimed in its defense, 18 months into use. [read post]
27 Oct 2006, 5:35 am
A power struggle has emerged between class-action heavies Milberg Weiss and Bernstein Litowitz over which firm will control the shareholder securities litigation pending against Merck, reports Nathan Koppel in today’s WSJ. [read post]
11 Apr 2006, 2:33 pm
The Jury has come in on the punitive damage portion of this lawsuit.A jury awarded $9 million in punitive damages on Tuesday to a man who blamed his heart attack on Vioxx, finding that manufacturer Merck & Co. failed to warn about the risks of its arthritis drug and misrepresented the risks to physicians. [read post]
18 Dec 2013, 2:13 pm by Tom Lamb
In relevant part, in comparison, our last article about the NuvaRing litigation, "NuvaRing: Merck Updates On The Number Of Cases Filed Against Drug Company As Of June 30, 2013", reported this Merck information: As of June 30, 2013, there were approximately 1,500 NuvaRing cases Next, the trial date for the first NuvaRing MDL "bellwether", or test, case (the Prather lawsuit) was moved from January 2014 to April 2014 by an Order issued by federal court Judge Rodney Sippel in… [read post]
22 Jul 2009, 12:32 pm
In fact, a 2007 piece in the New York Times suggested that Merck and Schering-Plough may have also suppressed evidence from clinical trials that found a connection between the drugs and liver problems. [read post]
27 Jul 2012, 5:50 pm
Propecia, or finasteride, was initially developed in 1992 by drug manufacturer Merck to treat men who experience issues related to an enlarged prostate. [read post]