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Vioxx Class Action Suit in California Rejected

June 5, 2009

A California state judge has rejected a proposed class action lawsuit brought on behalf of state residents who took the painkiller Vioxx before it was pulled from the market in 2004.

 

Lawyers for former Vioxx users and health insurance plans wanted to sue the drug’s maker, Merck & Co., to recover at least part of what they paid for the medicine. The plaintiffs lawyers argued patients would have taken other pain relievers, had they known that Vioxx doubled risk of heart attack and stroke.

 

However, Judge Victoria Chaney of Los Angeles Superior Court ruled that the patients and insurers cannot sue as a group. She wrote that patients paid varying amounts for Vioxx and had too many other differences to sue jointly, including their medical histories and how long they took the anti-inflammatory medicine.

 

Read Article: Law.com

 

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