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Judge orders Pfizer to pay $75 million in punitive damages in Prempro case.

On Behalf of | Nov 5, 2009 | Firm News

Judge orders Pfizer to pay $75 million in punitive damages in Prempro case.

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Created: 05 November 2009

Bloomberg News (11/5, Feeley) reports, “Pfizer Inc. must pay about $75 million in punitive damages to an Illinois woman who developed cancer after taking one of the drugmaker’s menopause treatments, people familiar with a sealed verdict in the case said.” A judge ordered Pfizer’s Wyeth unit “to pay the bad-conduct award, which is about 20 times larger than the $3.7 million in actual damages the panel awarded to Connie Barton over her use of Wyeth’s Prempro menopause drug.” At issue in the case was whether “Prempro helped cause the illness and the manufacturer failed to warn Barton and her doctors adequately about the drug’s risks.” The award “is the third surviving verdict in Prempro cases since juries began deciding them in 2006.” A spokesman for Pfizer said the company plans “to ask the judge to reject both the compensatory and punitive awards.”

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