Legal Updates
Johnson & Johnson Pays Millions After Duragesic Patch Death
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
A Chicago jury ruled on November 17, 2008, that subsidiaries of Johnson & Johnson must pay $16.6 million to the family of a woman near Chicago who died of a drug overdose after using a defective Duragesic patch as a pain killer. The woman, 38, died in February 2004 because…
Florida Family Awarded Compensation for Duragesic Patches Death
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
On October 29, 2008, a Seminole County jury in Florida granted $13.3 million to family whose mother died when a pain patch failed, flooding her system with too much medicine. The victim had been in the process of recuperating from back surgery when she put two Duragesic patches on her…
Popular Painkiller Overdoses Exceed 1,000
Friday, July 25, 2008
Health officials in the United States announced on July 24, 2008 that at least 1,013 people died of overdoses in several U.S. cities from 2005 to 2007 after illegally injecting the highly potent painkiller fentanyl. The fentanyl, at least some of which came from Mexico, was sold illegally by drug…
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