Woman Claims Vioxx Caused Her Husband to Suffer a Fatal Heart Attack

PALM BEACH, Fla., - A Florida woman recently filed a wrongful death suit against the manufacturer of Vioxx claiming that the arthritis drug caused her husband to suffer a fatal heart attack. Evelyn Irvin, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Richard Irvin, Jr., v. Merck & Co., Inc., et al., No. 2003-CA005251AB (Fla. Cir. Ct., Palm Beach Cty., 15th Judicial Cir.).

The complaint, filed in the Circuit Court of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit in and for Palm Beach County, states that Merck & Co., and two sales representatives failed to adequately warn the physician who prescribed the drug and …