Delaware top court will hear drugmakers’ appeal to end Zantac lawsuits, ET HealthWorld

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Delaware top court will hear drugmakers’ appeal to end Zantac lawsuits, ET HealthWorld

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By Brendan Pierson

New York: Delaware’s highest court said on Tuesday it will hear an appeal by GSK and other drugmakers seeking to end more than 70,000 lawsuits claiming discontinued heartburn ***** Zantac caused *******.

GSK, Pfizer, Sanofi and Boehringer Ingelheim are asking the court to overturn an order by a lower court judge allowing plaintiffs in the lawsuits to offer expert testimony on the alleged ******* link, which the companies argue is not supported by sound scientific methods.

First approved by U.S. regulators in 1983, Zantac became the world’s best-selling medicine in 1988 and one of the first to top $1 billion in annual sales. It was sold at different times by the four companies, all of which have faced thousands of lawsuits.

The litigation began after the U.S. Food and ***** Administration in 2020 asked manufacturers to pull the ***** off the market over concerns that ranitidine, the active ingredient in Zantac and generic versions of the *****, could degrade into NDMA, a carcinogen, over time or when exposed to heat.

Three Zantac cases so far have gone to trial, with two ending in verdicts for the defense and one with a hung jury.

(Reporting By Brendan Pierson in New York)

• Published On Aug 28, 2024 at 06:35 AM IST

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