August 01, 2016
A woman on Monday agreed to settle her claims that a Johnson & Johnson unit's bacteria-contaminated Children's Tylenol killed her young son, eight months after a California federal jury's deadlock resulted in a mistrial.
January 26, 2016
A California federal judge declared a mistrial Tuesday after a jury deadlocked on a mother's claims that a Johnson & Johnson unit made bacteria-contaminated Children's Tylenol that purportedly killed her young son, in a case being retried after jury misconduct scrapped a win by the drugmaker.
January 25, 2016
A Johnson & Johnson unit should pay $20 million for "rolling the dice" with bacteria-contaminated Tylenol that purportedly killed a young boy, a California federal jury heard Monday during closing arguments in the case, which is being retried after jury misconduct scrapped a win by the drugmaker.
January 20, 2016
A pathologist called by a Johnson & Johnson unit to testify Wednesday in a California retrial over claims that a bacteria-ridden Children's Tylenol killed an 11-year-old boy said the mother's purported timeline for when the bacterium exposure occurred was not "medically likely or plausible."
January 15, 2016
A former Cedars-Sinai chief of infectious diseases testified Friday in the retrial of a mother's claims her 11-year-old son was killed by bacteria-ridden Children's Tylenol made by a Johnson & Johnson unit, saying medical reports and the boy's sharp health decline showed signs of a bacterial infection.
January 13, 2016
A pathologist testifying before a California jury for a mother who claims bacteria-ridden Children's Tylenol made by a Johnson & Johnson unit killed her young son admitted during cross-examination Wednesday that the bacterium alleged to have killed the child was never found in his body.
January 12, 2016
Counsel for a mother alleging bacteria-ridden Children's Tylenol killed her young son delivered opening statements Tuesday in a retrial launched after jury misconduct scrapped a Johnson & Johnson unit's win, telling California jurors the company knew medication it shipped was contaminated.
July 23, 2015
A California federal judge on Wednesday ordered a new trial in a suit against a Johnson & Johnson unit alleging that a bacteria-ridden Children's Tylenol pill killed a young boy, finding that a jury member who researched recalls online via Google created a "reasonable possibility" the verdict was influenced.
March 20, 2015
A Johnson & Johnson unit may face a new trial over whether bacteria-ridden Children's Tylenol killed a young boy after his mother alleged at least one member of the jury researched recalls online via Google and told the other jurors what she had found, according to a California federal court filing on Friday.
November 13, 2014
A California federal jury has ruled that a Johnson & Johnson unit wasn't negligent in manufacturing a batch of Children's Tylenol in 2008 or testing it for contamination in a long-running suit filed by the family of a boy who died after ingesting medicine that had allegedly been rife with a deadly bacteria.