A jury of "uneducated casino workers" beat the hell out of Merck

Merck lost a big one yesterday in one of their Vioxx trials. Ted Frank calls it a miscarriage of justice:

This is the fifth plaintiffs’ jury verdict out of twenty-nine Vioxx cases that had been ready for trial (not including two pending mistrials), but with millions of dollars awarded each time, plaintiffs’ attorneys can keep batting below the Mendoza line and make a sizable profit . . .

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