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Jury Awards $9 Billion In Damages In Drug Case
- The New York Times, Wednesday, April 9, 2014 8 AM
In one of the biggest damages verdicts ever imposed, jurors in a district court trial in Lafayette, La., ordered the Japanese company, Takeda Pharmaceutical, to pay $6 billion in punitive damages on Monday after finding that the company had hidden the cancer risks of its drug, Actosa. The jury also ordered Takeda’s partner, Eli Lilly, which once marketed the drug in the United States, to pay $3 billion.
