{"id":2857,"date":"2014-01-14T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2019-02-11T15:36:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T15:36:58","slug":"8-6-million-punitive-damages-verdict-stands-review-state-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/8-6-million-punitive-damages-verdict-stands-review-state-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"$8.6 Million Punitive Damages Verdict Stands after Review by State Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Pennsylvania State Supreme Court has dismissed appeals by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pfizer.com\/\">Wyeth Pharmaceuticals <\/a>in its attempt to reverse a jury verdict of $8.6 million, which included a very sizable sum for punitive damages.<span>\u00a0<\/span>A lawsuit originated in a claim against Wyeth as to its menopause drug, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prempro.com\/\">Prempro,<\/a> which has been associated with women developing breast cancer.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Wyeth had asked the state\u2019s Supreme Court to overturn the September 2013 punitive damages verdict.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Wyeth argued that the verdict should be invalidated by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fda.gov\/\">U.S. Food and Drug Administration<\/a>\u2019s (FDA) earlier approval of the drug for safe use.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Wyeth maintained that the appellate court had erred in reinstating the jury verdict that was entered by a Philadelphia jury in 2007 for Mary Daniel, who claimed that the Prempro menopause drug caused her breast cancer.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Following that jury verdict, the punitive damages were tacked onto a compensatory damage award of $1.7 million.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Ms. Daniel and her husband were the plaintiffs in the case.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/8-6-million-punitive-damages-verdict-stands-review-state-supreme-court\/#more-2857\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pennsylvania State Supreme Court has dismissed appeals by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals in its attempt to reverse a jury verdict of $8.6 million, which included a very sizable sum for punitive damages.\u00a0A lawsuit originated in a claim against Wyeth as to its menopause drug, Prempro, which has been associated with women developing breast cancer.\u00a0 Wyeth had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[67,103,51,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-actions","category-mass-tort-cases","category-pharmaceutical-injuries","category-wrongful-death"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>$8.6 Million Punitive Damages Verdict Stands after Review by State Supreme Court &#8212; 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