Kentucky News

Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway announced a $1.75 million settlement on Friday with a pharmaceutical company to recover funds for the Kentucky Medicaid program.

The Kentucky Supreme Court will hear an appeal from a group of people sickened by the diet-drug fen-phen who say that a $42 million judgment awarded to them from their one-time attorneys should be reinstated.

Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway is renewing his request to have a lawsuit filed against him over his hiring of private lawyers dismissed.

Just days after losing an initial bid to block Kentucky attorney general Jack Conway from using contingency fee lawyers to press the state's claims over the marketing of Vioxx, Merck and its lawyers at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom have won a ruling allowing their case over the arrangement to move forward.

A Salyersville, Ky., man and his wife are suing 49 companies they claim are responsible for his lung cancer diagnosis.

Four years after Merck & Co., Inc. cut a $4.85 billion deal to settle thousands of Vioxx personal injury suits, the company is fighting to wipe out another Vioxx headache: consumer class actions related to the once-blockbuster pain medication, which Merck was forced to withdraw from the market in 2004.

Judge Ronnie Lee Gilman of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals told two attorneys that while their trial judge may have made an error, their scamming of millions from a 2001 fen-phen settlement just “looks wrong.”

A federal appeals court is set to hear an appeal from two attorneys imprisoned after being convicted of bilking their clients out of millions from a settlement involving the diet drug fen-phen.

The Kentucky Supreme Court will decide if former plaintiffs in fen-phen litigation that was tainted by the actions of attorneys will receive $42 million.

Cincinnati lawyer Stan Chesley has asked the Kentucky Supreme Court to delay considering his disbarment for his role in the fen-phen scandal so his lawyers can investigate why the Kentucky Bar Association’s chief disciplinary lawyer was fired earlier this month.