Wyeth Hormone Therapy Verdicts

     We have been informing clients and other possible clients that it appears that July 9 may be the cutoff to file any possible lawsuit against Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, as a result of  alleged injury from taking their hormone therapy products. I regularly get asked, "How is that hormone therapy litigation going?"  There is no short answer because we are still trying to get Wyeth to accept responsibility. There are other defendants as well. However, for the purposes of this blog, I thought I'd summarize the jury verdicts to date.

     If you read the press releases of the drug manufacturers, it almost sounds as though they are winning every case. In fact, there have been some verdicts taken away by trial judges, but those are on appeal and we are hopeful that the appellate courts will reinstate them.

     So far, ten juries have heard  hormone therapy cases against Wyeth, and seven of them have returned verdicts for the plaintiffs. Jennie and Lawrence Nelson had two different trials in the Superior Court of Pa. The first verdict was for 1.5 million. It was set aside and the second verdict was 3 million.(2.4 for Jennie and 600k for her husband)The Nelson verdict is now on appeal.

     Aside from the two Nelson juries, other verdicts for the plaintiffs are as follows: Daniel v. Wyeth (1.5 million compensatory and a verdict of punitive that was sealed. This 2004 verdict is now on appeal); Rowatt,Forrester, and Scofield v. Wyeth, et al (Second Judicial Dist Ct of the State of Nevada) (Rowatt- $7,557,027.00 compensatory damages and 31 million punitive, reduced by the Judge to 10 million),(Forrester- $7,561,481.00 compensatory and 35 million punitive, reduced to 13 million), (Scofield- $7,510,401.00 compensatory and 33 million punitive, reduced to 12 million); and Scroggin v Wyeth, et al., ED Ark Western Division ($2.75 million compensatory and 19.63 punitive and $7.76 million against defendant UpJohn).

     As always, a recitation of past verdicts is no guarantee of future results. This is just to serve as an update for those cases that have been tried in front of a jury. Most of the cases are either filed in Pennsylvania state court or in Federal Court and consolidated in the Multi-District Litigation in Arkansas. However, some are filed separately in other states as evidenced by the Nevada verdicts.

 

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