Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Vioxx: What was Counsel Thinking?

It was an impossible case to win going in," said Chris Seeger, referring to the process of selecting which lawsuits go to trial, according to the Merck zero verdict rendered yesterday in New Orleans. Go here for the quote source.

Why was that said? It makes almost no sense to make a remark like that. Most rational people would ask counsel who filed this case: 1)Why did you accept that case? 2)Why did you file it in Court? and 3)Why in the world did you tee it up in Court?