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Vioxx Verdicts

By joetort

I am collecting all the Vioxx verdicts – here is what I have so far. I welcome reader corrections and information about the current status of all of these cases – have they been appealed to higher courts? settled and if so for how much? or is this the final disposition? 

  1. Ernst — TX — $26,100,000 on 8/19/2005 — Reversed on appeal 
  2. Humeston — NJ — Defense verdict in Nov. 2005 — New trial ordered — $47,000,000 verdict 
  3. Plunkett — EDLA — Defense verdict on 2/17/2006 — New trial ordered
  4. Cona — NJ — 2,270,000 verdict on consumer fraud and defense verdict on tort in Apr. 2006 — appealed and $135 award upheld
  5. McDarby — NJ — 1,570,000 verdict in Apr. 2006 — appealed, 3,500,000 award upheld
  6. Garza — TX — 32, 500,000 verdict on 4//21/2006 — remitted to 8,700,000
  7. Doherty — NJ — defense verdict on 7/13/2006 
  8. Grossberg — CA — defense verdict on 8/2/2006
  9. Barnett — EDLA — 51,000,000 verdict on 8/17/2006 — new trial ordered — settled?
  10. Smith — EDLA — defense verdict on 9/17/2006
  11. Mason — EDLA — defense verdict on 11/15/2006
  12. Dedrick — EDLA — defense verdict on 12/13/2006
  13. Albright — AL — defense verdict on 12/15/2006
  14. Appell — CA — hung jury on 1/18/2007
  15. Arrigale — CA — defense verdict on 1/18/2007
  16. Kozic — FL — defense verdict on 10/8/2007
  17. Hermans — NJ — defense verdict on 4/3/2007
  18. Schwaller — IL — defense verdict on 3/27/2007

For readers wanting to cite to these, I have collected them in myarticle titled The Social Value of Jurisdictional Redundancy, 82 Tul. L. Rev.2369 (2008) at footnotes 106 and 107. It is available on SSRN.

Thanks to George Conk (whose blog is called Otherwise) and Ben Zipursky, both of Fordham Law, for supplementing my research.

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