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March 2013
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) must pay $7.76 million in punitive damages to a woman who previously won a $3.35 million compensatory award for injuries she blamed on the company’s vaginal-mesh device, a New Jersey jury ruled. Jurors in Atlantic City made the award today to punish J&J, the world’s largest seller of health-care products. The […]
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On March 29th, 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Class I recall on the drug GranuFlo Dry Acid Concentrate and Naturalyte Liquid Acid Concentrate. (Class I recalls are the most serious type of recall and involve situations in which there is a reasonable probability that use of these products will cause […]
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(Feb. 26) A jury on Monday said Johnson & Johnson should pay a South Dakota woman $3.35 million for failing to adequately warn her doctor of the potential dangers of a vaginal mesh implant made by the company’s Ethicon subsidiary, and for misrepresenting the product in brochures. It was the first verdict among some 1,800 […]
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