In the latest victory for breast cancer patients who were injured by Pfizer/Wyeth’s Prempro menopause drugs, the company was ordered to pay $9.45 million dollars in compensatory and punitive damages.
A Philadelphia jury issued their decision Feb. 22, finding Pfizer’s Wyeth unit owes Audrey Singleton, of Alabama, $6 million in punitive damages and $3.45 million in compensatory damages for injuries Ms. Singleton suffered because of Wyeth’s menopause drug, Prempro.
This is the fifth courtroom loss in a row for Wyeth in trying to defend the company’s practices in selling a dangerously harmful drug without sufficiently warnings. The loss is also the seventh out of only ten that have gone before juries so far. Across the nation, more than 8,000 plaintiffs have filed claims against Wyeth for injuries resulting from Prempro.
The case decided today is Singleton v. Wyeth Inc., 050102885, Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
Attorneys at Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz have been working on similar cases for several years and are available for consultation at 888-255-2956.