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TheHateCamel
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Vioxx Lawsuit
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My grandfather took Vioxx and died of a stroke.
Now my grandmother doesn't have enough money to survive on and her husband is dead.
What's the best way to go about having a case evaluated and/or bringing a lawsuit against Merck?
I was looking at this:
http://vioxx.poweradvocates.com/index.html
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Baby_Hitler
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FDA Tried to Block Vioxx Results-Lawmaker
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials pressured an agency safety official to keep quiet or water down his findings that the now-withdrawn arthritis drug Vioxx was dangerous to the heart, a leading Senate Republican charged on Thursday.
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blacksabbathrulz

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Well first of all, I can guarantee you that Vioxx wasn't what caused his stroke. The people who took vioxx were more likely to suffer from these health problems to begin with, unfortunately the retard Dr. Graham decided to pull it based on unsubstantiated evidence. It looks like vioxx is going to be back on the market soon, as the current risk-benifit analysis seems to show that the benifits faaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrr outweigh the risks.
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blacksabbathrulz

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Anyway, if you are going to sue, you don't neccessarily need any form of substantiation to link the death to vioxx, and since your grandmother is poor, make sure that if she does sue, that she gets in a large lawsuit, and offers no more than 3-6% of her settlement to the lawyers, otherwise she is getting jipped by the laywyers.
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Baby_Hitler
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*gypped
As in "gypsy".
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blacksabbathrulz

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Baby_Hitler said: *gypped
As in "gypsy".
Wow, I had no idea that it was spelled that way, or that is where the word came from. Thanks
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zappaisgod
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Fun information put together by my most excellent self for your delectation:
http://www.milbergweiss.com/practice/practicedetail.aspx?pgid=798
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Our pharmaceutical mass tort litigation practice is particularly active. Milberg Weiss attorneys at the firm are members of the plaintiffs’ Executive Committee in the multidistrict Rezulin litigation venued in the Southern District of New York and liaison counsel in the consolidated Serzone pharmaceutical litigation in New York Supreme Court. In addition, Melvyn I. Weiss was recently appointed Chairman of Plaintiff's Steering Committee in multidistrict Zyprexa litigation pending in the Eastern District of New York. We are also actively involved in Vioxx llitigation, and currently litigating several hundred individual Fen-Phen pharmaceutical cases in New Jersey Superior Court and has represented clients injured as a result of ingestion of Baycol.
And then this:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060518/bs_nm/crime_milberg_dc
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman LLP, the most prominent class-action securities law firm, was indicted on Thursday by a federal grand jury on fraud, conspiracy and other charges related to an alleged kickback scheme. ADVERTISEMENT
A Los Angeles grand jury issued a 20-count indictment against the firm and partners David Bershad and Steven Schulman. Prosecutors accused them of making illegal payments over a 20-year period to clients who agreed to act as plaintiffs.
Maybe she can get them to pay her to be a plaintiff.
We also have this:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=43328
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About 40% of the medical malpractice claims filed in the U.S. are groundless, according to a study published on Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, the AP/Houston Chronicle reports. For the study, researchers from Harvard University examined 1,452 malpractice claims randomly selected from five insurers that were resolved between 1984 and 2004. They also examined medical records, depositions and court transcripts to determine whether patients experienced injuries and whether those injuries resulted because of medical errors. The study finds that 3% of the claims were filed by patients who did not experience injuries. Among patients who experienced injuries, about two-thirds resulted because of medical errors, and 73% of claims filed by those patients were settled with payment, the study finds. In addition, among the 37% of claims filed by patients who experienced injuries that did not result because of medical errors, 72% were dismissed or resolved without payment, according to the study. In total, the claims resulted in $449 million in verdicts and settlements, and groundless claims accounted for about 15% of that amount, the study finds.
It costs the insurance companies a great deal of money just to weed out the spurios claims. Thus it costs you.
Just thought you'd like to know.
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blacksabbathrulz

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I'm well aware that suing is more often than not BS. Not to mention that people get ridiculous payouts sometimes as much as 250 million, just for fear of adverse reactions. People wonder why drugs are so expensive, however fail to realize that drug companies pay out BILLIONS every year in lawsuits. Drug companies don't even have huge profit margins.
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blacksabbathrulz said: I'm well aware that suing is more often than not BS. Not to mention that people get ridiculous payouts sometimes as much as 250 million, just for fear of adverse reactions. People wonder why drugs are so expensive, however fail to realize that drug companies pay out BILLIONS every year in lawsuits. Drug companies don't even have huge profit margins.
No. They makes loads of cash.
http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=1469
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blacksabbathrulz

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They make loads of cash, but have low profit margins, being that everyone in America is on some sort of medication.
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TheHateCamel
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blacksabbathrulz said: Well first of all, I can guarantee you that Vioxx wasn't what caused his stroke.
Are you a doctor a chemist?
Juussst kidding.
Anyway, it may or may not have caused it.
He had a stroke before he took it and then after her took it.
Vioxx is known to increase the risk of someone having stroke.
It should not have been prescribed.
Thanks for all the advise.
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blacksabbathrulz

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TheHateCamel said:
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blacksabbathrulz said: Well first of all, I can guarantee you that Vioxx wasn't what caused his stroke.
Are you a doctor a chemist?
Juussst kidding.
Anyway, it may or may not have caused it.
He had a stroke before he took it and then after her took it.
Vioxx is known to increase the risk of someone having stroke.
It should not have been prescribed.
Thanks for all the advise.
Well, I do have 57 credits of chemistry/pharmacy, and my father is widely regarded as the number one expert in Pharmaceuticals world wide. No, he hasn't made a dime off of vioxx, and he isn't allowed to work for Merck since he left the company as vice president 15 years or so ago. I have met the man who was primarily responsible for having the drug pulled and he is a douche. He was also responsible for the phen-fen fiasco, in which lawyers claimed that 31% of patients taking the drug had abnormal EKG's,, however 33% of the population has them anyway, so if anything it regulated the heart. Granted there were a handful of people who suffered from PPO as a result, and they were rightfully entitled to compensation. However, people getting 250 million dollar settlements who took the drug for 1 week and think something may happen to them when they are older is ridiculous.
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blacksabbathrulz

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BTW, as no one has said it yet, I'm sorry to hear about your grandfather. I honestly believe that if lawsuits weren't brought about (frivilous ones) that drugs would be dramatically cheaper.
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