October 06, 2015
Johnson & Johnson recently convinced a Pennsylvania federal jury that over-the-counter Children's Motrin didn't cause a child to develop the life-threatening skin condition Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, a win that attorneys say will help the pharmaceutical giant try more cases involving patients who took a little longer to develop the condition.
September 29, 2015
A Pennsylvania federal jury cleared a Johnson & Johnson unit on Tuesday of claims that over-the-counter Children's Motrin caused a 3-year-old girl to develop a horrific skin condition that ultimately rendered her blind.
September 29, 2015
A jury began deliberating in Philadelphia's federal courthouse Tuesday afternoon after being urged to find that a Johnson & Johnson unit had inadequately warned the parents of a three-year-old girl about the risks of a horrific skin condition associated with over-the-counter Children's Motrin.
September 09, 2015
An attorney for a Johnson & Johnson unit told a Pennsylvania jury during opening arguments on Wednesday that there was no clear link between the ibuprofen in its over-the-counter Children's Motrin and a horrific skin condition a 3-year-old girl developed after taking the drug in 2010.
September 08, 2015
Counsel for the parents of a 3-year-old girl who contracted a deadly skin condition after taking Children's Motrin argued that a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary failed to warn them of the ibuprofen-based drug's risks, as trial got under way Tuesday in Philadelphia.
September 04, 2015
Johnson & Johnson has suffered a string of defeats in trials alleging children developed a horrific skin condition after taking the company's over-the-counter pain reliever Children's Motrin, a record attorneys say puts the company at a disadvantage as it heads to a trial slated to start Tuesday in Pennsylvania federal court.
September 03, 2015
A couple suing Johnson & Johnson and a subsidiary over its Children's Motrin product argue that the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Bartlett ruling doesn't block their design defect claims against the branded-drug makers in an upcoming trial over the painkiller's alleged risks of causing Stevens-Johnson syndrome.
August 13, 2015
A couple targeting Johnson & Johnson and its unit over their child's Stevens-Johnson Syndrome — a serious skin condition allegedly caused by the J&J unit's Children's Motrin product — have argued that the drugmaker should not be allowed to bring in "speculative" evidence such the child's tests for the herpes virus.