As much as I like seeing Pharam brought this its knees, I feel she got way to much money for her lawsuit! She is 63 years old! She is a senior citizen!
Its not like she had to suffer her ENTIRE life because of malpractice. 2 million would have been enough, imo! On Mar 4, 11:30 am, xi <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a407q_TaJiXs&refe... > > March 4 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Supreme Court bolstered patient > lawsuits against drugmakers, upholding a $7 million award to a woman > who lost her arm after being injected with Wyeth’s Phenergan nausea > treatment. > > The justices, voting 6-3, said patients can use state product- > liability laws to accuse companies of failing to provide adequate > safety warnings. Drugmakers had argued that they were shielded from > suit by the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a treatment and > its packaging information. > > “Congress did not intend FDA oversight to be the exclusive means of > ensuring drug safety and effectiveness,” Justice John Paul Stevens > wrote for the court. > > The ruling is a defeat for drug companies in a case that might have > given them a broad shield from product-liability suits. Injured > patients and their families are pressing thousands of suits around the > country, seeking billions of dollars in damages from drug companies. > > The ruling is a victory for Diana Levine, 63, a children’s musician > who says Wyeth should have warned against the injection method that > caused gangrene in her right arm. > > Justices Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader > Ginsburg and Clarence Thomas joined Stevens in the majority. > > Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel > Alito dissented. > > The case is Wyeth v. Levine, 06-1249. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World-thread" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/world-thread?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
