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Unsuccessful Claimant: Diet Drug Settlement Is Unfair To Obese People

Monday, May 31st, 2010

PHILADELPHIA – The American Home Products National Settlement as amended and interpreted by the supervising judge discriminates against obese persons and runs counter to accepted medical practice, an unsuccessful claimant argues to the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (In Re: Diet Drugs [Phentermine/Fenfluramine/Dexfenfluramine] Products Liability L itigation, MDL Do cket No. 1203, Sheila Brown, et al. v. American Home Products Corp., No. (more…)

Claimant Opposes Show Cause Process

Saturday, May 29th, 2010

PHILADELPHIA – A claimant against the American Home Products National Settlement opposes the Settlement Trust in a show cause proceeding, arguing that her submission of two additional cardiologists’ opinions that she suffers moderate mitral valve insufficiency rebuts the trust’s fin ding that her attesting physician had no reasonable medical basis for the claim (In Re: Diet Drugs [Phentermine/Fenfluramine/Dexfenfluramine] Products Liability Litigation, (more…)

Claimant Says Judge Redefined Pact To Make Recovery Harder

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

PHILADELPHIA – An unsuccessful claimant on June 15 said the judge supervising the American Home Products National Settlement has incrementally redefined the settlement ag reement to make it more difficult for those claiming injury from Wyeth’s diet drugs to receive benefits (In Re: Diet Drugs [Phentermine/Fenfluramine/Dexfenfluramine] Products Liability Litigation, Gay Patterson and Kenneth Patterson, Appellants, 3rd Cir. No. 07-1957; See March (more…)

Trust Must Accept Claimant’s Registration Despite Late Filing

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

PHILADELPHIA – A law firm’s failure to place a class member’s registration for benefits in the mail by the deadline for registration was excusable neglect, the judge supervising the American Home Products National Settlement has ruled, and the trust must register her despite the tardiness (In Re: Diet Drugs [Phentermine/Fenfluramine/Dexfenfluramine] Products Liability Litigation, MDL Dock et No. 1203, Sheila Brown, et al. v. American Home Products (more…)

Claimant Gets Benefit Despite Wyeth Doubt Of Her Use Of Drug

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

PHILADELPHIA – The judge supervising the American Home Products National Diet Drug Settlement on July 10 denied a Wyeth motion and ordered the Settlement Trust to pay benefits to a claimant whose use of the drugs Wyeth contested (In Re: Diet Drugs [Phentermine/Fenfluramine/Dexfenfluramine] Products Liability Litigation, MDL Docket No. 1203, Sheila Brown, et al. v. American Home Products Corp., No. 99-20593, E.D. Pa.).
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Judge Says Claimant Should Not Pay For Trust’s Echo Failure

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

PHILADELPHIA – A claimant whose injury is worth $462,103 should not be penalized by the American Home Products Se ttlement Trust’s failure to provide an adequate echocardiogram, nor should the trust be allowed to use that substandard study to assert a reduction factor in the claimant’s compensation, the judge supervising the AHP National Settlement has ruled (In Re: Diet Drugs [Phentermine/Fenfluramine/Dexfenfluramine] Products Liability Litigation, (more…)

Claimant: Trust, Auditor Hid Knowledge Of His Lapse In Certification

Monday, May 24th, 2010

PHILADELPHIA – An unsuccessful matrix claimant has objected to allowing decisions by a trust auditor to stand, saying the trus t and the auditor have not been candid with the court about the circumstances surrounding the cardiologist’s lapsed board certification (In Re: Diet Drugs [Phentermine/Fenfluramine/Dexfenfluramine] Products Liability Litigation, MDL Docket No. 1203, Sheila Brown, et al. v. American Home Products Corp., No. 99-20593, E.D. (more…)

Objecting Claimant Will Get New Audit, Judge Rules

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

PHILADELPHIA – The judge supervising the American Home Products National Settlement has resolved conflict over a trust auditor’s lapse in board certification for cardiovascular disease by ordering a new audit for the unsuccessful Matrix claimant who objected and allowing to stand the audits of 65 claimants who did not object (In Re: Diet Drugs [Phentermine/Fenfluramine/Dexfenfluramine] Products Liability Litigation, MDL Docket No. 1203, Sheila (more…)

Judge: 2nd Surgery Qualifies Claimant For Additional Compensation

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

PHILADELPHIA – The judge supervising the American Home Products (AHP) National Settlement has awarded $3 47,121 in additional Matrix benefits to a claimant who underwent a second surgery to correct her original valve replacement surgery, overturning the trust’s contention that the second procedure was not follow-up surgery as defined in the Settlement Agreement (In Re: Diet Drugs [Phentermine/Fenfluramine/Dexfenfluramine] Products Liability Litigation, (more…)

Unsuccessful Claimant: Diet Drug Settlement Is Unfair To Obese People

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

PHILADELPHIA – The American Home Products National Settlement as amended and interpreted by the supervising judge discriminates against obese persons and runs counter to accepted medical practice, an unsuccessful claimant argues to the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (In Re: Diet Drugs [Phentermine/Fenfluramine/Dexfenfluramine] Products Liability Litigation, MDL Do cket No. 1203, Sheila Brown, et al. v. American Home Products Corp., No. 99-20593, (more…)

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