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Jury: Merck Failed To Warn Of Vioxx Risk

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ury: Merck Failed To Warn Of Vioxx Risk Jurors Award Man $4.5 Million

POSTED: 2:30 pm EDT April 5, 2006 UPDATED: 5:56 pm EDT April 5, 2006 Email This Story | Print This Story ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- A state jury has found Merck & Co. liable for one of two former Vioxx users' heart attacks and ordered he receive $4.5 million in damages in a closely watched trial involving two New Jersey men.

The jury found the company failed to adequately warn both plaintiffs about the risk factors linking the now-withdrawn painkiller to heart attacks and strokes, but said the drug was only a factor in one of the men's illnesses.

The panel said the company concealed the risks of the drug for both men, but ruled that only John McDarby, 77, a retired insurance agent from Park Ridge, should receive compensation.

The verdict came after less than two days of deliberations by a six-woman, two-man jury. Click here to find out more!

The trial was the first dealing with plaintiffs who blamed illnesses on long-term use of the painkiller.

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