Pfizer Inc. must pay $1.5 million in damages to a woman who developed breast cancer after taking one of the company’s menopause drugs, a jury in Puerto Rico ruled.
Jurors in federal court in San Juan deliberated about 7 hours over two days before finding yesterday that Pfizer’s Wyeth subsidiary failed to properly warn Helen Rivera-Adams and her doctors about the health risks of its Prempro menopause medicine, one of her lawyers said in an interview.
Rivera-Adams, suffering from the late stages of cancer, pushed ahead with the trial “to get the message out that this drug is dangerous,” Michael Robb, one of her lawyers, said in a telephone interview today. “I don’t know how many times Wyeth executives will have to hear that this drug ruins women’s lives before they acknowledge it.”
Pfizer Must Pay $1.5 Million in Prempro Damages, Jury in Puerto Rico Says - Bloomberg
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