Jury: Merck at Fault in Man’s Death

August 18, 2005

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A jury in the first civil trial against Merck & Co.’s popular painkiller Vioxx on Friday found the pharmaceutical company liable for the 2001 death of a Texas man, awarding his widow a total of more than $250 million.

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