TEXAS WOMAN ASKS JUDGE TO CUT $1.3 MILLION JURY AWARD IN HALF.The lawyer for a woman who won a jury award of more than $1.3 million in a lawsuit lawsuit: see procedure; tort. over alleged injury from the weight-loss drug cocktail Noun 1. drug cocktail - a combination of protease inhibitors taken with reverse transcriptase inhibitors; used in treating AIDS and HIV HAART, highly active antiretroviral therapy Fen-Phen has asked the state judge in the case to cut the award to $588,480. "We asked the figure to be adjusted to what the evidence showed," said plaintiff's lawyer Jim Morris He spent most of his childhood moving to different cities. Jr. "We would rather do it now than on appeal two years down the road." Plaintiff plaintiff Deborah Hayes sued Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, claiming she took the combination of drugs for 90 days in 1999, resulting in damage to a valve in her heart. She opted out of a pending class action suit. The jury awarded her $810,000 for future medical expenses and $500,000 for future mental anguish When connected with a physical injury, includes both the resultant mental sensation of pain and also the accompanying feelings of distress, fright, and anxiety. As an element of damages implies a relatively high degree of mental pain and distress; it is more than mere disappointment, . Wyeth had appealed the award. The company has set aside a total of $16.6 billion for Fen-Phen settlements. |
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