Company Seeks Judgment on Pleadings in Vioxx Wrongful Death Suit

NEW ORLEANS - A real estate holding company is seeking dismissal from a Vioxx wrongful death lawsuit because it says it had no involvement in a pharmacy's sale of the arthritis painkiller to the plaintiff's late father. In Re: Vioxx Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1657 (E.D. La.).

In a June 26 motion filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, PJC Realty MA Inc. seeks judgment on the pleadings or, in the alternative, an award of summary judgment in its favor and against Lynda Lowe as the administratrix for the estate of her father, Ernest …