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November 05, 2012

Novartis Jury Awards $10.45 Million for Drug, Lawyer Says

Quoted from http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-02/novartis-jury-awards-10-45-million-in-zometa-case-lawyer-says.html

Novartis Jury Awards $10.45 Million for Drug, Lawyer Says

By Christie Smythe - Nov 2, 2012 7:34 PM ET

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. (NVS) was found liable by a federal jury for jawbone damage in a woman who took the drug Zometa, and she was awarded $10.45 million, a lawyer for the plaintiff said.

A jury in Central Islip, New York, returned the verdict this afternoon, several hours after they began deliberations in the case, said John Vecchione, a lawyer for plaintiff Barbara Davids.

The verdict, which couldn’t be immediately confirmed in court records, is the second-largest among similar cases over Zometa, Vecchione said. It is the fourth win for plaintiffs out of eight Zometa-related jawbone cases that have gone to trial, he said. The jury in the Davids case awarded $450,000 in compensatory damages and $10 million in punitive damages, he said.

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Posted at 08:45 AM in Zometa |

Tags: drug injury, jaw injury, jury trial verdict, law, lawsuits, Novartis, ONJ, osteonecrosis of the jaw, Zometa

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