News - Reglan Article in Trial Magazine
- $3 Million Jury Verdict on Fen-Phen Case
- Kentucky cases tried in State Courts
- Vioxx suits piling up
- Family of 6-year-old gets $900k Settlement
- Family gets $900,000 Settlement
Generic Reglan Manufacturers Can Be Held Liable
In an article published in the June 2010 issue of Trial, Greg Bubalo, Steve Rotman and Kim Dougherty discuss the issues involved in obtaining judgment against manufacturers of generic drugs, especially Reglan.
$3 Million Jury Verdict on Fen-Phen Case
Oct. 22, 2008 -- A New Jersey jury ruled that Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, which set aside more than $21 billion to resolve lawsuits over the fen-phen diet drug combination, must pay $3 million to a 60 year old woman who contracted a lung-destroying disease from the diet drugs
Jurors in Bergen County Superior Court deliberated about two hours before finding that Wyeth's Pondimin drug was a cause of Gloria Stribling's primary pulmonary hypertension. The trial loss was Wyeth's first in four years in a case involving the often-fatal illness.
Attorney Gregory Bubalo was among the team of attorneys, including James Sill and Bill Medley, litigating this case.
James Sill, one of the Oklahoma City-based lawyers who represented Stribling, said in an interview after the eight-member jury returned its verdict. ``The jury has spoken loud and clear that Wyeth ignored warning signs about this drug,''
The ruling comes as Madison, New Jersey-based Wyeth seeks to wrap up more than a decade of litigation over fen-phen, which combined the company's Pondimin and Redux with the generic phentermine. Users took the drugs to suppress their appetites.
More than 6 million prescriptions were written for the diet combination before Wyeth pulled the drugs off the market in 1997 after researchers linked the treatment to heart damage and PPH.
Wyeth sought to resolve most fen-phen users' claims through a $3.75 billion national settlement program. The accord didn't cover people stricken with the fatal lung disease.
Bubalo Hiestand & Rotman are one of the very few law firms across the country who actually take PPH cases to trial on behalf of their clients.
Lawyers want Kentucky cases tried in state courts
By Kay Stewart
The Courier-Journal
Lawyers who filed suits against Vioxx- maker Merck in Kentucky said yesterday they
will fight to have the cases decided by local juries. One attorney said a New Jersey
jury's verdict in favor of Merck yesterday may have partly reflected the location of
the company's headquarters in the state. "It's like real estate -- location, location,
location," said Al Hollon,a former commonwealth's attorney in Perry County who has
filed 75 suits over Vioxx in Perry and Clay counties.
Saturday, October 1, 2005
Vioxx suits piling up in state courts
Thousands in U.S. allege drug unsafe
By Kay Stewart and Jason Riley
The Courier-Journal
Kentucky courts have been flooded in recent weeks with hundreds of lawsuits against pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. over its banned drug Vioxx, which was pulled from the market a year ago yesterday. No one has an exact number of Kentucky lawsuits over the once-popular painkiller, but more than 130 have been filed in Jefferson County alone just this week, swamping clerks with thousands of documents.
Family of 6-year-old gets $900K settlement
By VINCE LUECKE
Attorneys claim ER doctor was negligent
TELL CITY - A Kentucky family, whose 6-year-old son allegedly died from negligent care from an emergency-room physician contracted to work at Perry County Memorial Hospital, will receive $900,000 under terms of a settlement, the family's attorneys said last week.
June 29, 2005
Family gets $900,000 settlement in son's death
By LIBBY KEELING
The family of Johnathon Elder - a 6-year-old boy who died in Evansville after allegedly receiving negligent care at Perry County (Ind.) Memorial Hospital - has received a $900,000 settlement, according to his parents' lawyers.
