Huffington Post, October 6, 2011 A Nevada jury found drug companies liable and awarded a total of $20.1 million Thursday to five plaintiffs who had accused drug companies of negligently distributing large vials of an anesthetic to Las Vegas clinics at the center of a 2008 hepatitis C outbreak. (Robert Eglet featured in article.)
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Drug Companies Found Liable in Hepatitis C Infections
Las Vegas Review-Journal, October 6, 2011 A jury found three drug companies liable Thursday for the infections of three former patients at the clinics linked to Southern Nevada’s hepatitis C outbreak. (Robert Eglet featured in article.)
Jury Told Teva Puts Its Profit Ahead of Propofol Patient Safety
Bloomberg, October 5, 2011 Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (TEVA), the world’s biggest generic-drug maker, was accused by lawyers at a Nevada trial of putting profit ahead of the safety of colonoscopy patients who got the company’s Propofol anesthetic from reused vials. (Robert Eglet featured in article. Photo credit: Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Defense Witness in Second Hepatitis C Trial in Nevada, Dr. Arthur Reingold, Testimony on Plausible Cause for Contamination Impeached
PR Newswire , October 1, 2011 Dr. Arthur Reingold, witness for the defense in the second hepatitis C trial in Nevada, was called to the stand today offering expert testimony as an epidemiologist.
