Fen-phen and Redux were once successfully marketed diet drugs until researchers connected them to heart valve disease.
Prominent attorneys from Cincinnati and Lexington saw an opportunity and filed a class action lawsuit against the drugs' maker, Covington-based American Home Products.
But after the attorneys, including Cincinnati's Stan Chesley, scored a $200 million verdict for 431 plaintiffs, they soon found themselves on the other side of the courtroom.
The wild story is revisited in the new book Fat Chance: Diet Mania, Greed, and the Infamous Fen-Phen Swindle by author Rick Christman, who joins Cincinnati Edition to talk about it.
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