Jurors Side with Merck on Vioxx

Jurors sided with Merck in a Vioxx trial late last week, according to a recent news article.

The case concerned a 52-year-old Illinois woman named Patty Schwaller. Patty, an obese woman with diabetes and high blood pressure, had been taking Vioxx for nearly 2 years when she died from a heart attack in 2003.

The jurors agreed with Merck that it was likely her poor health and not the painkiller Vioxx that led to Patty’s killer heart attack.

As far as future Vioxx lawsuits go, there are still 27,000 personal injury lawsuits and 265 potential class-action lawsuits in the works, so stay tuned because there’s much more to come…