New Jersey Jury Awards $9 Million in Punitive Damages Against Maker of VIOXX® (Atlantic City, N.J.) A jury in New Jersey Superior Court Judge Carol E.Higbee’s court has awarded punitive damages against Merck & Co, manufacturer of VIOXX®. Jurors found that the drug maker intentionally withheld from the federal Food and Drug Administration damaging […]
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$253 Million Finding is Number 6 on National Law Journal List The National Law Journal named The Lanier Law Firm’s $253 million verdict against Merck & Co. as its sixth-largest verdict in 2005. In that case, a Brazoria County jury ruled against Merck on each of three key questions: they found Merck failed to
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Almost a year after jurors in Angleton, Tex. returned a $253.4 million verdict against VIOXX® manufacturer Merck & Co., 23rd District Judge Ben Hardin signed a final judgment awarding the plaintiffs $26.1 million in damages, plus $1.25 million in pre-judgment interest. Judge Hardin ordered Merck to pay $24.45 million in actual damages but reduced the
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TRIAL ATTORNEY SAYS MERCK IS “STEP CLOSER TO ACCOUNTABILITY” AS VIOXX® TRIAL CONTINUES Attorney Mark Lanier: “Merck can’t turn a loss into a win just by saying it’s so” Atlantic City – A jury on Friday in New Jersey Superior Court imposed a serious and strong verdict against Merck & Co, finding that the
By Lisa GirionTimes Staff WriterThe Los Angeles Times After a heated bidding war on eBay, Mark Lanier recently paid $2,125 to win a 1941 naval machinery manual. It sounds like a peculiar collecting hobby, but to Lanier, it was serious business. The Houston lawyer, who sues companies on behalf of asbestos exposure victims, was bidding
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Lawyers Switch Sides to Protect Settlements By Susan Borreson Texas Lawyer Shepard Hoffman once donned a Darth Vader costume at one of the annual seminars he organizes for asbestos plaintiffs lawyers in a quirky demonstration of what he calls the evil ways of asbestos manufacturers. So why did Hoffman and Houston plaintiffs lawyer W
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By Steve Olafson, Houston Chronicle ANGLETON – A Brazoria County jury awarded $115.6 million to 21 steelworkers Thursday for asbestos disease they contracted at an Alabama steel mill. Finding that The Carborundum Co. acted with gross negligence and malice, the jury assessed $100 million in punitive damages against the company, which manufactured an asbestos-containing grinding
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