Lipitor Class Action Lawsuit

A class action lawsuit, such as the Lipitor class action lawsuit, is as a regular lawsuit but when the plaintiffs are made up out of a lot of people, all covered of a certain class made up for the certain lawsuit. For example, a class action lawsuit class could consist of all the women from a specific area that are, or have been, working at a certain employee accused of taking advantage of its employees. This is not the case in the Lipitor class action lawsuit.

Lipitor is a major breakthrough in pharmaceutical science since it is a purely synthetic medicine that lowers the levels of bad cholesterol (LDL) while boosting the level of good cholesterol (HDL). Claimed to be an efficient medication against heart disease it has become one of the most popular pharmaceutical products ever. This although it can have some serious side effects such as severe muscular disease and lethal kidney failure, which have led to the Lipitor class action lawsuit.

The producer of Lipitor is Pfizer, a huge pharmaceutical company which had a revenue of over 50 billion American dollars and had over 100,000 employees during the year of 2005. Pfizer has, since first producing the medication, campaigned Lipitor as the answer to everybodys prayers when it comes to medication for heart diseases. The campaigning in itself and the fact that Pfizer claims that a high level of cholesterol causes heart diseases is a huge part in the Lipitor class action lawsuit against Pfizer.

The plaintiff in the Lipitor class action lawsuit are men and women with normal to mildly elevated cholesterol levels and no history of heart disease that has been taking Lipitor as regular medication. As the plaintiff claim that over 70% of all sales of Lipitor has been unnecessary as there is no comprehensive proof that a high level of cholesterol is the cause of heart diseases the plaintiff claims that Pfizer has put them into harms way since Lipitor has some serious side effects. To back this up in the Lipitor class action lawsuits the plaintiff has medical experts claiming that cholesterol levels and heart diseases have little to do with each other, if any.

As many probably already have understood there is a huge problem with the Lipitor class action lawsuit. There really is no conclusive evidence that shows if cholesterol levels and heart diseases are connected, it is still under investigation and testing and might be so for years to come. But the Lipitor class action lawsuit must come to an end and therefore it is more or less up to the jury to guess whether Lipitor is the wonder medicine that Pfizer claims that it is, or if it is the snake oil that the plaintiff claims. Then let time tell the truth.