NOT THE FIRST FEN-PHEN TRIAL TO CREATE CONTROVERSY (Lexington Herald-Leader)

The Kentucky case is not the first fen-phen class-action to generate controversy. Since the late 1990s, there have been allegations in other states that doctors, working with lawfirms, certified claims of fen-phen injuries without actually examining the patients. In other instances, it was alleged that lawyers paid doctors extra money for performing medical diagnoses that produced fen-phen …