Fraudulent Concealment Allegation Can't Save HRT Case, Judge Rules

PHILADELPHIA - A Pennsylvania trial court judge has rejected an attempt by plaintiffs to resurrect a hormone replacement therapy case that they said should be reinstated because the manufacturers fraudulently concealed information about breast cancer risks associated with the drugs. Coleman v. Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, et al., June Term, 2004 No. 3179 (Pa. Comm. Pls., Philadelphia Cty.).

Judge Allan L Tereshko of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas ruled in a March 7 supplemental opinion that aside from failing to bring the argument to light earlier in the proceedings, the plaintiff failed to show how her own prescribing doctors were aware …