Vioxx: "The jury had to guess"

Some insights from PointofLaw.com:

But today’s system cannot work well for close calls, at least not when the stakes are in the billions or tens or hundreds of billions of dollars. Analysts expect tens of thousands of cases roughly similar to Mr. McDarby’s. Juries will continue to guess at the central issues, getting it wrong as often as right but charging Merck $10 million or $20 million or $40 million every time they’re wrong.