Grandmother Awarded $42 Mil in Hormone Replacement Suit
Jury Rules in Favor of Woman Who Says Wyeth Drugs Caused Breast Cancer
For Arlene Rowatt, a grandmother of eight, yesterday’s verdict in the Wyeth hormone replacement therapy suit is a sweet victory.
A Nevada jury awarded Rowatt more than $42 million for her share of $99 million in punitive damages, and $35 million in compensatory damages – the largest ever judgment against the nation’s leading maker of hormone replacement therapies. Rowatt followed her doctors’ orders and took Premarin®, and then Prempro®, to ease the symptoms of menopuase for nearly eight years.
Read more here, on ABC World News.
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