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respiratory

Medicolegal

Judge slams $4600 payout

1 Mar 2015

The Federal Court of Australia has approved the final payout to people who had a heart attack while taking Vioxx. But the judge isn’t happy. The 1660 people involved in the class action against Merck will get $4,629.36 each, court papers showed. The striking feature of the settlement is the size of the overall settlement ...

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