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Takeda Ordered to Pay More Than $2 Million to Actos User
By Jef Feeley and Christopher Yasiejko 2014-10-03
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. was ordered by a jury to pay more than $2 million to a woman who claimed the company’s Actos diabetes medicine caused her bladder cancer, in the latest of thousands of lawsuits involving the drug to go to trial.
Jurors in state court in Philadelphia deliberated more than five hours today before finding that officials of Osaka, Japan-based Takeda failed to properly warn Frances Wisniewski’s doctors about Actos’s cancer risk.
The jury found Takeda “clearly failed to warn, and it clearly caused her damage,” Wisniewski’s attorney, Mike Miller, said in an interview. “She’s got a life of bladder cancer; it’s a fair verdict,” he added.
Wisniewski, 79, a retired accountant, is the seventh Actos patient to take her suit to trial. Her case follows a $9 billion verdict this year in Louisiana against Takeda and Eli Lilly & Co. for hiding the diabetes medicine’s risks. The companies have asked a judge to grant them a new trial in that case.
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