Jury Awards $1 Billion in Diet Drug Death
From Times Wire Reports
A jury in Beaumont awarded $1 billion to the family of a woman who once took the Wyeth-made diet drug Pondimin, part of the now-banned weight-loss combination fen-phen.
The New Jersey-based drug company said it would appeal the jury’s award.
Cynthia Cappel-Coffey, 41, died last year after being diagnosed with primary pulmonary hypertension, which her lawyers blamed on Pondimin, the brand name of fenfluramine.
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