Texas Court Overturns Multimillion-Dollar Vioxx Verdict

A Texas appeals court on May 14 overturned a multimillion-dollar verdict against Merck & Co. in one of the few trials it lost over its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx. In April 2006, a jury awarded $32 million to the widow of 71-year-old Leonel Garza, a short-term Vioxx user who died of a heart attack in 2001. That award -- $7 million for comp...

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