Morgantown Loses in Bid to Ban Fracking
Fracking Ban Gets Noticed. An energy company has prevailed in its quest to kill Morgantown, West Virginia's fracking ban. Last Friday, Monongalia County Circuit Judge Susan Tucker ruled that a ban on hydraulic fracturing within a mile of Morgantown city limits was preempted by state law. As we reported previously, the Morgantown … [Read more...]
Wyeth Loses Another Prempro Case
A Woman Was Awarded $3M Verdict Against Wyeth By a Jury. An Ohio woman was awarded a $3 million verdict by a jury in Pennsylvania state court, which held that her use of Wyeth’s menopause drug, Prempro, led to her breast cancer. It was the second verdict against Wyeth and Prempro in the past month, and roughly 5,000 individual suits … [Read more...]
Merck Loses Vioxx Case
Jury Awarded A Widow In Damages Over Vioxx Case. DOBBS: A jury tonight in Texas finding a of a man who took its blockbuster painkiller drug Vioxx. The jury awarded his widow more than a quarter of a billion dollars in damages after reviewing evidence that links the drug to an increased risk of heart attack and stroke. This is the … [Read more...]
