Puerto Rico Jury Awards Prempro Plaintiff $1.5 Million

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A federal jury has awarded $1.5 million in compensatory damages to a pharmacist who developed breast cancer after taking Wyeth's menopause drug Prempro. Rivera-Adams v. Wyeth, No. 03-1713 (D. Puerto Rico).

In a Dec. 30 verdict, the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico jury determined that Helen Rivera-Adams proved by a preponderance of the evidence that her breast cancer was caused by Prempro and that Wyeth failed to adequately warn her doctors of this risk.

The jury further found that as of June 26, 2002, Rivera did not know that Prempro …