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Thursday, July 26, 2012
Pfizer Paid $896 Million in Prempro Settlements - Bloomberg
Plaintiffs have won about half of their product liability actions against Pfizer. Plaintiffs allege inadequate warnings of the cancer risk associated with the artificial estrogen replacement therapy. Pfizer has won 8 of the last 10 trials. Individual causation is a complex issue to establish. - GWC
"Pfizer Inc. (PFE), the world’s largest drugmaker, said in a securities filing that it has paid $896 million to resolve about 60 percent of the cases alleging its menopause drugs caused cancer in women.
Pfizer has now settled about 6,000 lawsuits that claim Prempro and other hormone-replacement drugs caused breast cancer, and it has set aside an additional $330 million to resolve the remaining 4,000 suits, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission."
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