Comments on: Vioxx Lawyers’ Fees Capped At $1.56 Billion

By: finn

finn — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:35:01 +0000

I understood the 40% would go to the people who got hurt by vioxx. Later the 60%would pay the lawyers and medicare and other insurance companies back what it cost them. I wonder since Medicare decides what they will pay for a service if that means we pay that amount or do we pay what we would have to pay if we were rich enough to pay for a by-pass surgery. I had to be opened up 2 times to fix me back to half normal. Guess I will pay for the 2 surguries. I also have DEAD heart tissue that does not work and causes me not to be the same person I was before vioxx. Any one know for sure when or what we will get? If the lawyer gets 32% and the medicare and insurance companies get paid out of our first payment the figures don’t add up. We would not have enough to pay for all of this. Would we??????

By: Anne PME

Anne PME — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:00:34 +0000

Does anyone know if the health insurer/PBM attorneys who represent the insurance companies who are invoking subrogation clauses also included in this 32% cap? If not, are they paid out of remaining claimant amounts for their work in collecting subrogation amounts from the survivors?

By: Paul G

Paul G — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:57:42 +0000

It’s all relative.
The lawyers get so much and patients get so little.
It all seems like a blackmail scheme by lawyers rather than a trie patient benefit thing.

By: tomnj

tomnj — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:22:25 +0000

Is USD1.56 reasonable? The poll question is not a good one without qualification. It is not reasonable because it is TOO MUCH! I don`t believe the attorneys come close to earning that amount. That is the problem with our society!

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:54:32 +0000

Although not consistent with question I voted No because unreasonable that the lawyers would get so high of a percentage