Jury Awards $75 Million in Punitive Damages to Illinois Woman in Prempro Cancer Case
From Canadian Press DataFile (November 23, 2009)
PHILADELPHIA-- A jury in Philadelphia has ordered Wyeth
Pharmaceuticals to pay a woman $75 million in punitive damages
after finding a link between her breast cancer and a
hormone-replacement drug.
That's according to an attorney for the woman, Connie Barton.
Last month, the jury awarded Barton $3.75 million in compensatory
damages and found Wyeth wilfully hid evidence of a cancer
link.
The punitive award for Barton, of Peoria, Illinois, had been sealed
until Monday because of another Prempro case under way in the same
courthouse.
A spokesman for Pfizer Inc., which recently acquired Wyeth, says
the company will challenge the Barton verdict, and another verdict
also announced Monday.
Barton's case is one of a handful of Prempro lawsuits to go to
trial out of several thousand filed across America.
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