A Maryland jury has ruled that Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. failed to properly warn a former U.S. Army translator and his doctor about the risks of the firm's Actos diabetes drug and ordered it to pay more than $1.7 million (¥168 million) in damages, but a judge immediately threw out the verdict, court documents show.
Jurors in state court in Baltimore deliberated more than six hours over two days before finding Asia's largest drugmaker liable for the death of Diep An from cancer, said one of the family's lawyers, Michael Miller.
Since jurors also found that An contributed to his death by smoking for 30 years, Judge Brooke Murdock set the verdict aside based on Maryland law.