J&J no liability
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
A California jury cleared McNeil Consumer & Specialty Pharmaceuticals on July 17 of liability in a lawsuit filed by 11-year-old Sabrina Brierton Johnson, who suffered Stevens-Johnson syndrome after using Children's Motrin. Johnson, who is now blind, will appeal her case, which alleges the Johnson & Johnson division failed to adequately warn on its product label that the ibuprofen in Motrin can trigger a rare allergic reaction that causes blindness and even death, according to lawyers at Greene Broillet & Wheeler, which represented the girl and her parents in the case litigated in Los Angeles Superior Court ("The Tan Sheet" June 16, 2008, p. 9)...