Merck suffers setbacks as it defends lawsuits

Friday, August 18, 2006

NEW ORLEANS -- Merck & Co. was stung with two major legal setbacks over the withdrawn painkiller Vioxx on Thursday when a federal jury ordered the drug maker to pay $51 million to a heart attack victim, and a state judge in New Jersey overturned a November verdict favoring the company.

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