Fen-Phen Case Settled for Undisclosed Amount
By Hubert Vigilla
Published on February 16, 2006
Sherry Manicalco filed the lawsuit against the pharmaceutical company Wyeth after she allegedly suffered from heart damage caused by a diet drug that contained the ingredient Pondimin.
This recent settlement involves one of several fen-phen lawsuits involving injury and even death. In April 2004, another Jefferson County jury awarded more than $1 billion in a lawsuit involving the death of Cynthia Cappell-Coffey, a 41-year-old woman who died of primary pulmonary hypertension as a result of the diet drug combination fen-phen.
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