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The Suit Against Vioxx
The Vioxx scandal has altered the health care community forever! Vioxx was one of the most prescribed drugs for arthritis pain, before it was removed the market. It was removed from this market when research samples proved it raised the chance of cardiac arrest in people taking it. Even though the drug has been pulled off the marketplace for a while, legal action against the manufacturer Merck continued and has increased for sometime now. Vioxx suit has become a more house hold term after a judge awarded $253.4 million to Carol Ernst, widow of Bob Ernst due to his death in May 2001 from the drug. This was the most money ever given to an individual for this type of case. He had used Vioxx daily. This historic judgement prompted more and more personal injury attorneys to take cases that client claimed to be harmed by the medicine they had been taking. In one afternoon Merck stock drop eight points and lost the confidence of the nation.
