The Newswire for Business Lawyers

8th Circ. OKs $27M Damages Dismissal In Prempro Case

Law360, New York (November 02, 2009) -- A federal appeals court has ruled that a judge rightly threw out a $27 million award to a woman who claimed Wyeth and a Pfizer Inc. subsidiary failed to warn about the cancer risk of their controversial hormone replacement treatment because of expert testimony the judge said should not have been allowed.

A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit handed down the ruling Monday, agreeing with the district court judge that expert testimony the jurors relied...

Login

E-mail
Password
 
  I forgot my login details.

For the whole story, take a 7-day free trial.

Submit your request to try Law360 for free for seven days:

*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*

*Required

Select at least one interest area:*
You will receive Law360's free daily newsletter for the interest area(s) selected..

Appellate
Bankruptcy
Competition
Contract
Corporate Finance
Employment
Energy
Environmental
Financial Services
Health
Insurance
Intellectual Property
International Trade
Product Liability
Securities
Technology
Top News (General Interest)

The only daily news service covering every major practice area of the law.
  • Breaking news available nowhere else
  • More than 66% of articles published before or simultaneously with any other source
  • 44% of articles have critical legal documents attached
  • More than 1,000 columns by leading practitioners published per year
  • More than 20,000 exclusive articles published per year
  • Detailed coverage of 16 major practice areas