2 Breast Cancer Patients Awarded $103 Million In Punitive Damages
PHILADELPHIA - An Illinois woman who was awarded $6.3 million in compensatory damages on Nov. 20 by a Pennsylvania state court jury that found her use of hormone replacement therapy was a contributing cause of her breast cancer will receive an additional $28 million in punitive damages, the jury decided Nov. 23, while Wyeth, the manufacturer of one of the drugs, was ordered to pay $75 million to another Illinois woman, whose trial over similar injuries ended in late October (Donna Kendall v. Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Inc., et al., No. 040600965; Connie Barton v. Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Inc., et al., No. 040406301, Pa. Comm. Pls., Philadelphia Co.).
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