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View the April 2005 edition of STAT! HTML

April 2005 "Merck asked yesterday for the dismissal of the first Vioxx personal injury lawsuit scheduled to come to trial, contending that a man who died of a heart attack after being prescribed Vioxx never took the drug..." Governor Sonny Perdue signed into law H.B. 416, legislation to reform asbestos and silica litigation. Illinois Lawsuit Abuse Watch (I-LAW) used recent legislative debates on the state's medical liability crisis to take its Sick of Lawsuits campaign on the road.

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