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Healthcare/Hospital Law

Sep. 14, 2006

Judge Rules Two State Vioxx Cases Are to Be Combined

LOS ANGELES - Merck & Co., the manufacturer of the painkiller Vioxx, took two hits this week, one in a Los Angeles courtroom and the other in the court of medical opinion.

By Bobbi Murray
Daily Journal Staff Writer
     
LOS ANGELES - Merck & Co., the manufacturer of the painkiller Vioxx, took two hits this week, one in a Los Angeles courtroom and the other in the court of medical opinion.
      Despite vigorous opposition by defense counsel, Judge Victoria G. Chaney ruled Monday that the cases of Rudolph Arrigale, 77, and Lawrence Appell, 57, ...

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