Merck wants Vioxx case dismissed

Merck wants Vioxx case dismissed

By Dan E. Way
Montgomery Advertiser

The Vioxx pills that an Alabama widow claims caused her husband's death Sept. 4, 2001, were not on the market until a half year later, attorneys for Merck Pharmaceutical said Tuesday in asking Clay County Circuit Court to dismiss the wrongful death case as bogus.

"This evidence demonstrates, at minimum, that plaintiff's claim is predicated on an impossibility," the motion contends in asking the judge to throw out the first U.S. trial involving the popular arthritis painkiller. Trial is scheduled for next month.

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