Judge Declines to Upset $22.5 Million Jury Award in Polio Case
A New York state judge has refused to throw out the $22.5 million verdict awarded by a jury in a 28-year-old polio vaccine suit. The jury found Pfizer, as successor to Lederle Laboratories, liable for negligent manufacture of the oral polio vaccine from which plaintiff Dominick Tenuto allegedly contracted polio while changing his infant daughter's diapers in 1979.
