Dozens of lawyers filed into a federal courtroom Friday for a first pretrial hearing in the federal Vioxx liability case, the start of a legal process expected to be complex, years-long and costly for the painkiller's maker, Merck & Co. After the pretrial activities, the federal cases will be returned to their original jurisdictions for trial. Drug industry analysts have differing estimates of Merck's potential total liability in the Vioxx cases: from $4 billion to $30 billion.
March 21, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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