Vioxx MDL Judge Grants Two Merck Daubert Motions

NEW ORLEANS - A federal judge has granted motions to exclude testimony of two plaintiffs' experts in the retrial of the first federal Vioxx lawsuit against Merck, saying the experts failed to offer new evidence and were medically unqualified to present testimony. In Re: Vioxx Products Liability Litigation, MDL Docket No. 1657 (E.D. La.).

On Feb. 2, Judge Eldon E. Fallon, who oversees the federal Vioxx MDL in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, granted Merck's Daubert motions to exclude all testimony of Dr. Robert H. Fletcher and to exclude testimony of Dr. Michael Alan Graham …