Bloomberg News (4/21, Feeley) reported that
Pfizer "must pay at least $4 million in damages to a woman who developed
breast cancer after taking the company's Prempro menopause drug, a jury in
Connecticut ruled. Jurors in federal court in New Haven ruled that Pfizer's
Wyeth unit is liable for causing Margaret Fraser's cancer and that Prempro is
an 'unreasonably dangerous product,' Greg Bubalo, one of Fraser's attorneys,
said yesterday. The panel also found that Wyeth should pay punitive damages
over its handling of the drug." Bloomberg also noted that Wyeth and Upjohn
have lost 11 of 20 Prempro verdicts since 2006, although some awards were later
reduced or voided.
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