{"id":2252145,"date":"2024-05-24T12:57:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T16:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pfizer-settles-more-than-10000-cancer-lawsuits-in-bid-to-reduce-potential-liability\/"},"modified":"2024-05-24T13:00:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T17:00:06","slug":"pfizer-settles-more-than-10000-cancer-lawsuits-in-bid-to-reduce-potential-liability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pfizer-settles-more-than-10000-cancer-lawsuits-in-bid-to-reduce-potential-liability\/","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer resolves over 10,000 cancer lawsuits to limit liability"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpfizer-settles-more-than-10000-cancer-lawsuits-in-bid-to-reduce-potential-liability%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2252145&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses how COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers were \u2064granted immunity from lawsuits until later in the year under the PREP Act. It mentions \u2064Pfizer&#8217;s settlement\u2063 of over 10,000 cancer-related cases involving Zantac.\u2062 The complexity of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/it-turns-out-that-promising-free-stuff-to-illegal-immigrants-causes-more-illegal-immigration\/\" title=\"It Turns Out That Promising Free Stuff To Illegal Immigrants \u2026 Causes More Illegal Immigration\u00a0\">legal processes<\/a> regarding vaccine liability\u2062 and\u2062 the potential impacts on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/big-pharma-bankrolled-bidens-nih-director-nominee-watchdog-group-says\/\" title=\"Watchdog group claims Big Pharma funded Biden's NIH Director nominee.\">pharmaceutical\u200d companies<\/a> \u2062are also highlighted. The article explores the\u200c immunity granted to COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers under the PREP \u2064Act, Pfizer&#8217;s \u2064resolution of 10,000 Zantac cancer \u200clawsuits,\u2062 and \u200dthe legal\u200b intricacies of\u200b vaccine liability. It sheds\u2063 light on the consequential effects on pharmaceutical firms due to legal\u2062 actions\u200c and settlements.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/%20\"><span>C. Douglas Golden<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   May 24, 2024 at 6:44am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>As almost everyone knows, the manufacturers of COVID-19 vaccines are immune from lawsuits until later this year.<\/p>\n<p>In February of 2020, then-Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar invoked the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, or PREP, which allows HHS to provide protection to vaccine manufacturers unless there\u2019s \u201cwillful misconduct,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/12\/16\/covid-vaccine-side-effects-compensation-lawsuit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNBC<\/a>. That protection, invoked as the vaccines were undergoing emergency use authorization, sunsets in October of this year, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biospace.com\/article\/will-u-s-vaccine-makers-face-lawsuits-over-covid-vaccine-side-effects-like-biontech-is-\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BioSpace<\/a> \u2014 but even then, lawsuits against vaccine manufacturers will be difficult.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven when this immunity goes away, the vaccine manufacturers are largely immune anyway, in the sense that there\u2019s this very complicated administrative proceeding and process that somebody has to go through first before they can ever sue a vaccine manufacturer,\u201d said legal expert Omar Ochoa, who talked to BioSpace about the possibility that lawsuits might go forward after the PREP Act protections sunset Oct. 1.<\/p>\n<p>In a completely unrelated note, Pfizer just settled over 10,000 cases in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disgruntled-nra-donors-push-to-oust-lapierre\/\" title=\"Disgruntled NRA Donors Push to Oust\u00a0LaPierre\u00a0\">class-action suit<\/a> that alleged it hid the cancer risks of a major drug for up to $250 million, according to a report in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/9f59da60-4441-42c4-b84c-6de0c3931d08\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Financial Times<\/a> earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The suit has to do with the drug <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fda-announces-authorization-first-home-coronavirus-test\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zantac<\/a>, an antacid with the active ingredient ranitidine.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple drugmakers, including GSK and Sanofi, have held the U.S. patent since it became a prescription drug in 1983 and an over-the-counter treatment in 1996, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-05-08\/pfizer-agrees-to-settle-more-than-10-000-zantac-cancer-lawsuits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pfizer sold the drug between 1998 and 2006. Sanofi eventually recalled the drug in 2019 after a lab showed it released a likely carcinogen called NDMA if it was subjected to higher temperatures or left untaken over longer periods of time.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was found in what Bloomberg said was a \u201ctelltale filing\u201d on April 29 as GSK defends itself in the first jury trial over what they knew about the drug and its potential for carcinogenic activity.<\/p>\n<p>The filing said that a Chicago judge had cleared the suit to go to trial, but noted that the order only applied to GSK and one other company because \u201cPfizer had already settled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company said that it was a canny business move in a decision. Analysts would agree; the companies who made the drug shed $40 billion in combined value after an analyst noted that exposure to liability to the companies who manufactured the drug could total $45 billion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPfizer has explored and will continue to explore opportunistic settlements of certain cases if appropriate, and has settled certain cases,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/pfizer-settle-10k-lawsuits-drug-linked-cancer-costing-company-millions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pfizer<\/a> said in a statement after the announcement on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe company has not sold a Zantac product in more than 15 years and did so only for a limited period of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Analysts would agree, given that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-jets-qb-aaron-rodgers-takes-shot-nfl-pfizer-connection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pfizer<\/a> shares were up 1.5 percent after the news broke on May 8. The stock has gone from 27.18 on May 1 to 28.69 as of closing on <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/PFE\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 23<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after Sanofi settled for $100 million in about 4,000 Zantac cases and GSK, which has the most liability exposure to the drug, has settled a handful of cases in California.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this is merely a reminder that pharmaceutical companies are merely human and run by fallible beings. It\u2019s also a reminder that flaws in a drug can come long after it\u2019s introduced; Zantac hit the market in 1983 and we\u2019re just seeing court cases reach juries <em>now<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This, of course, means that any side effects \u2014 temporary or permanent \u2014 caused by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-pfizer-profits-plummet-covid-vaccine-treatment-sales-evaporate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comirnaty<\/a>, the brand name for Pfizer\u2019s COVID-19 vaccine, won\u2019t ever go to the judge no matter when they\u2019re found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very rare for a blanket immunity law to be passed,\u201d Rogge Dunn, a Dallas labor and employment attorney, told CNBC at the time that PREP was invoked to provide Pfizer and Moderna with blanket immunity for their COVID vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPharmaceutical companies typically aren\u2019t offered much liability protection under the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, as we also now know, the vaccines were rushed to market in a race to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gym-owners-stood-firm-covid-tyrants-get-amazing-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">beat or treat COVID<\/a>, meaning that issues \u2014 including what BioSpace noted were \u201ccardiovascular and respiratory outcomes\u201d \u2014 were likely overlooked. And just because the PREP Act sunsets in October of this year, that doesn\u2019t mean that it won\u2019t be re-invoked if Congress or the White House is in the wrong hands.<\/p>\n<p>But, of course, none of that has anything to do with Zantac. Nothing to see here, folks. Move along!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>A Note from Our Deputy Managing Editor:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>I heard a chilling comment the other day: \u201cWe don\u2019t even know if an election will be held in 2024.\u201d <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>That wasn\u2019t said by a conspiracy theorist or a doomsday prophet. No, former U.S. national security advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn said that to the founder of The Western Journal, Floyd Brown.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Gen. Flynn\u2019s warning means that the 2024 election is the most important election for every single living American. If we lose this one to the wealthy elites who hate us, hate God, and hate what America stands for, we can only assume that 248 years of American history and the values we hold dear to our hearts may soon vanish.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The end game is here, and as Benjamin Franklin said, \u201cWe must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>All of this means that <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/subscribe\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>without you<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>, it\u2019s over. 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Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he&#8217;s written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>  C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he&#8217;s written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014. Aside from politics, he enjoys spending time with his wife, literature (especially British comic novels and modern Japanese lit), indie rock, coffee, Formula One and football (of both American and world varieties). <\/p>\n<p>  Birthplace <\/p>\n<p>  Morristown, New Jersey <\/p>\n<p>  Education <\/p>\n<p>  Catholic University of America <\/p>\n<p>  Languages Spoken <\/p>\n<p>  English, Spanish <\/p>\n<p>  Topics of Expertise <\/p>\n<p>  American Politics, World Politics, Culture <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary by C. Douglas Golden on May 24, 2024, at 6:44 am: COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers are shielded from lawsuits until later this year. 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