Posted on Wed, Nov. 4, 2009
Pfizer Inc. must pay about $75 million in punitive damages to an Illinois woman who developed cancer after taking one of the drugmaker's menopause treatments, people familiar with a sealed verdict in the case told Bloomberg News.
A Philadelphia jury ordered Pfizer's Wyeth unit Oct. 26 to pay the bad-conduct award, which is about 20 times larger than the $3.7 million in actual damages the panel awarded to Connie Barton over her use of Wyeth's Prempro menopause drug, according to people with direct knowledge of the verdict, Bloomberg reported.
A judge ordered Barton's punitive-damage award sealed at Wyeth's request until the trial of another Prempro lawsuit in the same courthouse is completed, Bloomberg said in an article today; lawyers in that case say jurors won't start deliberating on that suit's claims for another three weeks.
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