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A Vioxx product liability trial jury's $50M damage award. On August 30, 2006, a federal judge ruled that this award for compensatory damages was “grossly excessive,” and “excessive under any conceivable substantive standard of excessiveness,’ Even though the court upheld the jury's $1 million award of punitive damages against Merck, it said that under existing case law, a new trial was needed only to determine the amount of both compensatory and punitive damages against Merck.
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