Thalidomide plaintiffs agree to $80M settlement in Australian case; discovery continues in US
By EsqSocial Corporation 03/12/13
Decades after women were given Thalidomide to combat morning sickness during pregnancy in the 1950s and 1960s and wound up delivering babies with missing or deformed limbs and other birth defects, survivors are still seeking compensation. Litigation continues in the United States, the United Kingdom and Spain, but more than…