Texans, hang your head in shame for 12 of your fellow citizens.
Why not $253GAZILLION!
I wouldn't advise the widow to go out and buy any small countries yet.
Boy, that's better than playing the lottery.
Loot! Loot! Loot! Wa-hoo!!!
Lawyers are the commissars of American-style socialism.
Who's REALLY liable?
Was this drug put on the FDA's "Fast track" program?
LOL
That'll teach them to try to help people with arthritis!
Let's see: he must have made ten million dollars a year, he was probably worth another ten million in "companionship" yearly, and got 50 million because he died in great "anguish" while asleep. And all from taking an anti-inflamitory/arthritis painkiller that he probably wouldn't have given up for a million in cold hard cash.
Oh, yeah, that adds up. Did Edwards channel the old guy for the jury or what? And just what kind of morons did they have on this jury?
No way this stands up on appeal. My mother's doc has called the charges against Vioxx "garbage" and continues to prescribe it.
I'd like to see a detailed breakdown of this. But I know that will never happen. Cause at least 1/3 will go to the lawyers.
They will find a judge to throw out that ruling. Hope the jury enjoyed their short lived fun.
Merck stock is plummetting to its death as we speak....
Robert Ernst was 59 years old when he died. If he earned $60,000 per year as a produce manager at WalMart, and worked until he was 100 years old, his aggregate salary for the next 41 years would be $2.4 million, representing just under 1% of the total award.
Wait until Pfiser starts getting sued for the thousands of Viagra deaths.
I thought Walmart gave their employees "slave wages." The produce managers must be making all the money if this jury thinks this is what his widow deserves to make up his wages. This Angleton jury is almost as idiotic as the Galveston jury that let the old lunatic from New York off after he chopped up his neighbor. I'll bet every attorney in the US will want their chance at Merck' lottery tried in Angleton.
Total BS.
This is utterly absurd. No way it will stand.
Another win for the AMBULANCE CHASERS!