Lawyers for G.D. Searle & Co. asked...

Lawyers for G.D. Searle & Co. asked a judge for a new trial after a jury awarded $8.15 million to a woman who said the Copper-7 intrauterine device caused an infection that left her infertile. A new trial should be granted because jurors were prejudiced by information taken into the jury room, said Paul Strain, attorney for the Chicago-based pharmaceutical company. According to affidavits filed by three jurors, the jury foreman smuggled a newspaper story about the trial into the jury room and read it aloud, defying a court order. Jurors also talked about definitions from a medical dictionary, which also had been forbidden by Judge Robert Renner.