Jury cuts some Wyeth damages, to deliberate more

RENO, Nev., Oct 12 (Reuters) - A Nevada jury cut by about $100 million a compensatory damage award against Wyeth (WYE.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) in a trial relating to hormone replacement medicine, after the judge determined jurors had included some punitive damages in a compensatory damage sum from an earlier deliberation.

But the jury will reconvene next week to consider punitive damages, leaving uncertain the total sum Wyeth faces.

The jury earlier this week ordered Wyeth to pay about $135 million in compensatory damages to three women who blamed their breast cancer on the drugmaker's hormone replacement medicine.

On Friday the jury cut the sum to $35 million after telling the judge that the original sum included some punitive damages, which are to be figured separately.

"We can correct it now. If we don't correct it now, we are going to end up trying this case again down the road," said Judge Robert Perry of the Second Judicial District Court of Nevada. (Reporting by Wishelle Banks in Reno, writing by Peter Henderson in Los Angeles)