Civil Action Radio Features Interview with Trial Team on Duragesic Fentanyl Patch $5.5M Verdict
Civil Action Radio Features Interview with Trial Team on Duragesic Fentanyl Patch $5.5M Verdict
By Legal Broadcast Network
July 10, 2007
Last week on Civil
Action Radio,
guest host Attorney Roberta Ashkin, of the Ashkin
Law Office, was joined by the trial lawyer team
that won the nationally publicized verdict in
the first Federal Fentanyl Patch case. Roberta
is a frequent guest and commentator on The Legal
Broadcast Network and her commentary on legal
issues and areas of interest to trial lawyers
can be found exclusively on LBN channels and
podcasts.
The 25 minute podcast featured attorney
Jim Orr of Dallas, TX and
a partner in Heygood,
Orr, Reyes, Pearson & Bartolomei, and
Attorney Ike Gulas of Birmingham, AL and a partner
in the firm of Gulas & Stuckey.
This podcast is a bit longer then our typical
15 minute editions but this case has been reported
in virtually every major national publication
and legal magazine and this interview with two
key members of the trial team will give you an
inside glimpse into the facts and issues that
brought this verdict in for the plaintiffs.
Jim
Orr focuses his practice on complex business
litigation and personal injury matters and over
the course of his career he has represented both
plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of civil
litigation matters and has tried over 60 cases
to verdict. He is AV
rated by Martindale Hubbell and
has been voted several times by his peers one
of the "Super
Lawyers" in
the State of Texas. Also representing the client
for Heygood, Orr, Reyes and Bartolomei in this
case were attorney
Angel Reyes and Charles
Miller as
part of the trial team and you can find their
bio's and more information about the firm by
clicking the link above.
Ike Gulas has built an
impressive reputation in mass tort litigation
and class action suits brought against the pharmaceutical
manufacturers of Rezulin, Fen-Phen, Serzone and
Baycol. His firm is known through out the south
as one of the premier mass tort trial firms and
this verdict in a difficult federal case will
only further cement that reputation.
The podcast discusses the
$5.5 million wrongful death verdict against two subsidiaries, Janssen
Pharmaceutical Products, LP and ALZA
Corp, both subsidiaries of pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson,
in the nations first federal court trial involving the patch form
of the narcotic painkiller fentanyl, also known and sold under the
name "Duragesic
patch". In
this particular case the plaintiffs were the estate of the late Adam
Hendelson who died on December 17, 2003 as a result of the leakage
of the patch which put fatal levels of fentanyl into his system,
killing him at home.
This is a significant verdict and fascinating
case that will be of interest to trial lawyers nationally and settlement
professionals who have clients that work in pharmaceutical litigation.
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