Vioxx Federal Retrial Set for February
Judge Eldon Fallon, the presiding judge in the federal Vioxx litigation, set the Vioxx retrial for February 6 in New Orleans. The last trial, held in Houston, ended in mistrial after the jury could not come to an unanimous verdict after 18 hours of deliberation.
Plaintiffs in the February trial will be able to present evidence of the recent New England Journal of Medicine report that Merck withheld reporting 3 heart attacks from the VIGOR study back in 2001.