You might’ve thought that you needed to marry a billionaire to get $24 million from a one-year marriage, but we now know that that a one-year marriage to a 59-year-old Wal-Mart produce manager with ...

ANGLETON -- The Brazoria County jury in the nation's first Vioxx-related civil trial has found pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. liable for the death of a man who took the painkiller. Jurors awarded ...

HOUSTON — Carol Ernst says Merck & Co. knew its pain reliever Vioxx was potentially deadly when it sold the drug to her husband, and today she is expected to become the first in a long line of ...

A Texas jury held Merck liable in the first lawsuit against the company over its former blockbuster pain drug Vioxx. The jury awarded plaintiff Carol Ernst more than $250 million in total damages in ...

The huge jury award to a plaintiff in the nation's first Vioxx case is likely to inspire thousands more suits on top of the 4,200 already filed against the drug's maker, Merck & Co., and push ...

Angleton, TX - In a decision eagerly awaited by personal-injury lawyers across the US, a Texas jury has found Vioxx manufacturer Merck & Co liable in the death of 54-year-old Robert Ernst. The jury ...

Many legal observers say testimony in the first half of the Ernst v. Merck trial has favored the plaintiff, a development which could be an ominous sign for the drug maker. The New York Times reports ...

As jurors in Texas weigh the company's fate, executives at Merck are considering a sobering reality. Even if Merck does manage to win the lawsuit against it over the role of the painkiller Vioxx in ...

NGLETON - Carol Ernst began to cry, and her attorney shouted "Amen!" as the judge reeled off the numbers Friday from the jury verdict in her lawsuit claiming the painkiller Vioxx had killed her ...

Merck & Co. traded its mission of healing and treating sickness for relentless marketing and pursuit of profits, a plaintiff's lawyer in the nation's first Vioxx-related lawsuit to go to trial told ...

Houston attorney W. Mark Lanier discusses Thursday's ruling in favor of drug maker Merck in the death of a user of its painkiller Vioxx. Lanier won a similar case against Merck. Carol Ernst, whose ...