The U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday upheld a $2.75 million award in compensatory damages for a Little Rock woman who successfully sued drugmakers Wyeth and Upjohn in 2008, saying the companies’ hormone therapy drugs caused her breast cancer.

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