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...Like Chemie Grünenthal, the German firm that developed thalidomide, Britain's giant Distillers Co. still denies that it was negligent in marketing the drug. But last week, after long legal battles, the company did accept responsibility for the children born deformed after their mothers took the drug, which was prescribed as a tranquilizer during pregnancy. With the approval of Britain's High Court, Distillers finally agreed to set aside $50 million to compensate 433 victims of the drug and their families. Under the settlement, $15 million will be distributed immediately and $35 million placed in trust...
...West Germany, where the drug was invented, the parents of some 2,000 surviving children settled with Chemie Grünenthal in 1970 for about $14,000 each. In Sweden, Astro Pharmaceutical agreed in 1969 to pay $1,200 a year for life to each of 100 victims, with cost-of-living increases built...
Executives of Chemie Grünenthal GMBH had been on trial for 20 months in a suit brought by the West German government in behalf of the parents and children. In a courtroom improvised from a miners' hall in Alsdorf, near Aachen, company lawyers had been skillfully using delaying moves in an apparent effort to wear down the plaintiffs. Their efforts seemed to be paying off; by last week, few of the aggrieved parents were bothering to attend the monotonous hearings. But time was also working against Grünenthal. Its key executives had been confined to the courtroom...
...exchange for being released from further risks and liability from parents' suits related to thalidomide, Chemie Grünenthal offered the 100 million marks for "the children." The company did not specify which children, in the hope of avoiding even tacit admission that any had been specifically damaged by thalidomide. In fact, no one was certain how many children would be covered by the proposed settlement. Some put the number of surviving thalidomide victims at only 2,000, which would mean an average settlement of about $13,000 each. Other counts put the number at more than...
...seven years after the disaster, Grünenthal's executives have been brought to trial. West German government lawyers collected 70,000 pages of evidence and prepared a 972-page indictment in which company officers are charged with personal negligence leading to the marketing of an unsafe and insufficiently tested drug. The trial promises to last at least two years and will be divided into two main phases: 1) an effort to show that the damage was indeed caused by thalidomide; and 2) an attempt to prove that Grünenthal's executives were knowingly responsible and negligent...