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DETROIT -- A jury awarded $10.6 million to one-time radio host who was fired after complaining a co-worker's perfume made her sick. Erin Weber said WYCD-FM fired her in 2001 after she complained she was allergic to another host's perfume. She said the station owner, Infinity Broadcasting Inc., discriminated against her for a disability — allergies — and retaliated after she filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Most of the roughly 250 lawyers assembled in the Wyndham Philadelphia hotel ballroom listened intently Thursday as fellow attorney Barry Hill showed off an extensive collection of trinkets and product samples emblazoned with the logo of the now-withdrawn drug Vioxx. "Maybe you can use them (the samples) as evidence," joked Hill, a Wheeling, W.V., trial lawyer who bears a resemblance to the actor William Holden. The remark elicited chuckles from an audience that has to be one of Vioxx manufacturer Merck & Co.'s worst nightmares: a roomful of litigators who are suing or plan to sue the drugmaker that pulled...