A state jury in Philadelphia on Monday found Wyeth’s hormone replacement therapy (HRT) Prempro was responsible for a woman’s breast cancer and ordered the U.S. drugmaker to pay $1.5 million in
compensatory damages, a court official said.
The jury found that Wyeth was negligent in failing to provide adequate warnings about the breast cancer risk associated with Prempro.
The jury is expected to return on Tuesday to decide punitive damages after also finding that Wyeth’s conduct was “malicious, wanton, willful or oppressive or showed reckless indifference to the interest of others” in its failure to provide proper warnings about its HRT drugs, taken by millions of women to treat symptoms of menopause.
Wyeth is facing about 5,000 product liability lawsuits involving its hormone replacement drugs.
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