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According to the Washington Post:

Officials in Nigeria have brought criminal charges against the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer for the company’s alleged role in the deaths of children who received an unapproved drug during a meningitis epidemic. 

The government alleges that Pfizer researchers selected 200 children and infants from crowds at a makeshift epidemic camp in Kano, and gave about half the group an untested antibiotic called Trovan.  Researchers gave the other children what the lawsuit describes as a “dangerously low dose” of a comparison drug made by Hoffmann-La Roche.

Nigerian officials allege that Pfizer’s actions resulted in the deaths of an unspecified number of children, and left others deaf, paralyzed, blind, or brain-damaged.  Further, the lawsuit contends that the researchers did not obtain consent from the childrens’ families, and that the researchers knew Trovan to be an experimental drug with life-threatening side effects that made the drug “unfit for human use.”

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has never approved Trovan for use in treating American children.  In 1997, it was cleared for use in adults, however, it has been associated with reports of liver damage and deaths, leading the FDA to restrict its use in 1999.  Although it remains available in the U.S., European regulators have banned Trovan.

I wonder how do these people sleep at nite a

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fter harming innocent children?  I bet the lobbyists in Congress for Pfizer never bring this topic up…but would they allow Pfizer to inject their own children like those in Nigeria?       

Seems that the Tort Reformers suddenly believe in the right to file a lawsuit when it is regarding their own injury…..when they are the victims….

It brings to mind the word “hypocritical.”  Hypocritical to criticize the judicial system and those who, as victims, file lawsuits with merit, and then to turn around and file a lawsuit yourself.  Maybe it is do as I say, and not as I do time?  

Lawsuit Happy Tort Reformers?  Who knew?

Senator Trent Lott’s insurance was denied when his home was destroyed by hurricane Katrina, and so the Senator filed suit.  By filing suit the Senator was able to settle his lawsuit against State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. for refusing to cover the Katrina damage to his Gulf Coast home.  In the past this Senator has publicly called for limits on lawsuits; perhaps his own experience has changed him?

U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Hudson Institute fellow, and very big Tort Reformer Proponent, Robert Bork, has filed his own civil slip-&-fall lawsuit against the Yale Club, and is seeking $1 million in damages for injuries that he sustained from a fall at Yale last year, and interestingly enough, this tort reform advocate actually wants punitive damages! 

As the New York Times stated so eloquently in an article:

     “Since we believe in the tort system, when properly used, all we would ask is whether Mr. Bork’s unfortunate experience at the Yale Club has led him to re-evaluate any of the harsh things he has said in the past about injured people, much like himself, who simply wanted their day in Court.”

          

 

         

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