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Plaintiffs' Lawyers Find New Clients in Pharmaceutical Cases

By Petra Pasternak
April 26, 2007

For years, Hersh & Hersh ('H&H') has represented hundreds of users of a top-selling anti-psychotic drug in suits against its maker. Now the firm is taking on bigger clients against the same company: states that say they've been footing the public health costs from the drug. H&H's first such client against pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly & Co. is the state of New Mexico, which claims it spent about $18 million on Zyprexa'-related medical expenses between 1999 and 2005.

The 10-lawyer San Francisco plaintiffs' firm is taking on overhead to handle an expected uptick in work as more and more states ' which spend millions on the drug through Medicaid programs ' file suit. Although it can be a politically controversial move, states are hiring private law firms to represent them ' some on a contingency basis, some not.

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