Source: https://hollingsworthllp.com/cases/meng-v-novartis-pharm-corp-no-mid-l-7670-07-mt-nj-super-ct-law-div-may-15-2013
Timestamp: 2019-04-24 19:47:25+00:00

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On May 15, 2013, after deliberating for fewer than six hours, a New Jersey jury returned a 7-to-1 verdict in favor of Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation in a thirteen day trial involving Zometa®, a bisphosphonate drug given to cancer patients suffering metastases to bone. Meng v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp., No. MID-L-7670-07-MT (N.J. Super. Ct. Law Div. May 15, 2013) is the second win for Novartis in the two cases tried to date from the Aredia®/Zometa® consolidated litigation in New Jersey state court.
Plaintiff Beverly Meng alleged that she developed osteonecrosis of the jaw as a result of receiving Zometa® to prevent skeletal-related events – such as bone fractures – when her breast cancer metastasized to her bones.
The Meng case is the tenth trial out of consolidated litigation in federal and state court alleging that osteonecrosis of the jaw resulted from treatment with Novartis’s medications Aredia® and Zometa®, which are used to treat patients who have cancer that has metastasized to bone. Meng is the sixth defense verdict for Novartis, following wins in Hogan v. Novartis Pharm. Corp., No. 06-Civ-260 (BMC) (EDNY); Kyle v. Novartis Pharm. Corp., 1: 06-cv-00035-TBR (W.D. Ky.); Brown v. Novartis Pharm. Corp., No. 7:08-CV-00130-FL (E.D.N.C.); Brodie v. Novartis Pharm. Corp., No. 4:10-cv-138-HEA (E.D. Mo. Feb. 1, 2012), and Bessemer v. Novartis Pharm. Corp., No. MID-L-1835-08-MT (N.J. Super. Ct. Law Div. Oct. 22, 2010), aff’d, No. A-2069-10T1, 2012 WL 2120777 (N.J. Super. Ct. App. Div. June 13, 2012).
Novartis has won 47 cases on summary judgment and obtained dismissal of over 130 other cases in the Aredia®/Zometa® federal and state consolidated litigations.
Novartis was represented in Meng by Firm partners Joe G. Hollingsworth, Katharine R. Latimer, and Neil S. Bromberg.

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