Johnson & Johnson makes health and beauty products that most Americans have used at one time or another. Some of the most well known J&J products are Band-Aids, Tylenol, J&J baby products including the now infamous baby powder, Neutrogena products, Clean & Clear Facial Wash, and Acuvue contact lenses. Except for the talcum powder produced […]
Pharmaceutical Injury Settlements Falling
In March 2018 the nonprofit consumer rights group, Public Citizen Foundation, released an in-depth study called Twenty-Seven Years of Pharmaceutical Industry Criminal and Civil Penalties: 1991 through 2017. The report catalogs all of the major financial settlements and court judgments between state and federal governments and pharmaceutical corporations. In reading the report the law firm […]
Pennsylvania Court Reverses Sole Defense Victory in Risperdal Mass Tort
The Superior Court of Pennsylvania issued two decisions in November, dealing victories to both plaintiffs and defendants in a state mass tort case involving Janssen Pharmaceutical’s anti-psychotic drug, Risperdal. The first decision reversed a 2015 verdict issued by a trial jury that relieved Janssen, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, of liability, even though the […]