In the ongoing mass tort over the hormone replacement therapy drug Prempro, two small firms recently teamed up to break the defense winning streak in the trials.

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Much like 2009, 2010 was a busy year for prescription drug suits.

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Consumers must show detrimental reliance in order to hold a drug manufacturer liable for misleading statements in its marketing of hormone replacement therapy drugs, West Virginia’s highest court has ruled.

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Product liability claims involving hormone replacement therapy drugs are governed by the law of the state in which the plaintiffs became ill, even if they took the medication in other states, the Nevada Supreme Court has ruled.

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Post-menopausal women who take a popular hormone drug combination therapy are at increased risk of getting breast cancer as well as dying from the disease, according to a new federal study.

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Proceedings have begun in the latest hormone replacement trial in federal multi-district litigation in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas.

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With Pfizer and plaintiffs’ lawyers squabbling over who has won the most hormone replacement therapy trials, only one thing about the litigation is clear: it’s turning into one of the longest-running mass torts in U.S. history.

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A plaintiff who alleged her daughter died as a result of taking the defendant’s diet drug can pursue a negligent design defect claim, a Pennsylvania appellate court has ruled in reversing a summary judgment.

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A Philadelphia, Pa. Common Pleas Court jury has said that two women’s breast cancers were not linked to Wyeth’s menopause drug, Prempro.

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Negligence claims regarding Redux are not preempted insofar as they relate to the manufacturer’s conduct before the Food and Drug Administration approved the diet drug, the 6th Circuit has ruled in reversing a summary judgment.

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