Pfizer was ordered to pay $2 million in compensatory damages to Concepcion Morgado who was injured after taking the recalled diabetes drug Rezulin. Pfizer faces thousands of lawsuits alleging that Warner-Lambert, which it acquired in June 2000, failed to inform the public of Rezulin’s dangerous side effects. Rezulin was supplied by Warner-Lambert.

Morgado’s attorney said in a statement that Warner-Lambert was found to have “omitted material information about Rezulin to physicians, including Mrs. Morgado’s physician.”

Rezulin was withdrawn from the market in March 2000 after about a hundred people taking the Rezulin died from acute liver failure or had to have liver transplants.

(via Reuters)