Word: pondimin
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Legal claims proliferated against American Home Products, whose Wyeth-Ayerst subsidiary made Pondimin (or fenfluramine, the "fen" in fen/phen) and marketed the related diet drug Redux. Though many of these suits were combined in a single multibillion-dollar class action, Mundy focuses on Linnen's case and one other. In the latter, a couple of outsize Texas lawyers named Kip Petroff and Robert Kisselburgh brought ole-boy tactics to bear on behalf of Debbie Lovett, 36, a manicurist with valve disease. Their client had a long history of smoking and high blood pressure, which suggests that more than diet drugs...
...finger pointing that followed last week's abrupt withdrawal of two of the country's favorite diet pills looked like a multiple-choice law-school torts exam, the similarity was hardly coincidental. Even before the FDA urged the recall of Redux (dexfenfluramine)--and Pondimin (fenfluramine), the front half of the fat-pill combo known as fen/phen--scores of lawyers across the nation had already started filing lawsuits. After the recall, the legal assault turned into a stampede. "Everyone saw money," says Jacoby & Meyers' Gail Koff...
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