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UK victims welcome MPs support in ongoing fight for justice over Vioxx 19th June 2008
UK victims today welcomed support from MPs in their ongoing fight for justice against drug company Merck. Following questions about Vioxx in the House of Commons, Mr Ivan Lewis, Under-Secretary of State for Health, commented "We need to look at the pressure we can apply to that manufacturer in terms of its responsibilities to people in the UK who have been affected".
Vioxx was a painkilling drug used for the treatment of osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and short term relief of acute pain. When launched by Merck in the UK in 1999, Vioxx was marketed as a drug that would provide pain relief to thousands without the adverse gastrointestinal side effects associated withother non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
Following marketing however it was discovered that Vioxx was associated with high risk cardiovascular complications, including heart attacks and strokes. In September 2004 an unpublished study sponsored by Merck confirmed the effects and the drug was withdrawn from the market. During the time it was on the market many UK users suffered heart atttacks and strokes, some of which were fatal.
Financial Losses due to personal injury
In addition to compensation for your injury you may be entitled to recover for items of financial loss/expense that you have suffered and which is both caused by the accident and reasonable. The following are just some examples:
Repair costs to your vehicle,
Hire charges for replacement vehicle and/or Loss of use for each day you are without a vehicle
Storage charges
Recovery of policy excess
Loss of earnings, both since the accident and also if your injury means you will not be
able to work into the future in your chosen or other occupations
Care assistance – for the time spent by relatives and/or friends helping you with your daily activities and tasks
Gardening and D.I.Y – if you have paid someone to do this when you would have done the work but for your injury or alternatively if is provided by relatives/friends
Travel costs – to and from medical appointments for example
Prescription costs/costs of painkillers
Cost of Private treatment – provided you can demonstrate the treatment is for an injury caused by the accident and has been recommended by a doctor; for example, physiotherapy charges”
