$16.5 Million Award in First Federal Fentanyl Patch Trial
On November 17, 2008, HORP&B achieved a $16,560,000 verdict for the family
of a Cicero, Illinois woman who died while wearing a Duragesic fentanyl transdermal
pain patch. After a 3 week trial, a Chicago jury found two Johnson & Johnson
subsidiaries liable for the death of 38-year-old Janice DiCosolo, a mother of
three. full article
*Litigation expenses were $300,000 and attorneys' fees were $5,500,000.
NEWS ARTICLE LINKS:
11/18/08 - Bloomberg News – Jury Awards $16.6 Million
11/18/08 - CNN Money | NewYork (Associated Press) – Jury awards nearly $16.6M in Ill. skin patch case
$5.5 Million Award in
First Federal Fentanyl Patch Trial
The family of a Florida man has won a $5.5 million wrongful death verdict* against
two subsidiaries of pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson in the nation's
first federal trial involving a patch form of the narcotic painkiller fentanyl. full
article
*Litigation expenses were $300,000 and attorneys' fees
were $1,200,000.
INTERVIEWS
AND APPEARANCES LINKS:
6/26/07 - Civil Action Radio – Jim
Orr Podcast Interview regarding the June 19 Duragesic Fentanyl
Settlement
NEWS ARTICLE LINKS:
7/10/07 - The Legal Broadcast Network – Civil Action Radio
Features Interview with Trial Team on Duragesic Fentanyl Patch $5.5M Verdict
6/19/07 - Bloomberg.com – J&J
Units Ordered to Pay $5.5 Million in Patch Case
6/19/07 - Medadnews.com – Heygood,
Orr & Pearson and Gulas & Stuckey:
$5.5 Million Award in First Federal Fentanyl Patch
Trial
6/19/07 - Forbes.com – Jury
Awards $5.5M in Drug Patch Case
6/19/07 - NYTimes.com – Companies
Lose Drug Patch Suit
6/19/07 - BusinessWeek.com – Jury
awards $5.5M in drug patch case
6/19/07
- SmartMoney.com – J&J
To Pay $5.5 Million In Wrongful Death Verdict
6/19/07 - Palm Beach Post – $5.5M awarded in pain-killing patch death
6/20/07 - San Jose Mercury News – J&J
units ordered to pay patch user's father
6/19/07 - RTT Global Financial News – Johnson & Johnson
Subsidiaries Loses Duragesic Patch Trial; Family
Awarded $5.5 Million Damages
6/20/07 - PR-Inside (Austria) – U.S.
jury awards $5.5M in Johnson & Johnson
drug patch case - U.S. jury awards $5.5M in Johnson & Johnson
drug patch case
6/20/07 - CBC News (Canada) – Family of man who died wearing drug patch
awarded $5.5M US
6/19/07 - Palm Beach Post – Jury
deciding if pain patch leaked, killing man, 28
6/07 – Johnson & Johnson
Ignored Duragesic Pain Patch Defects, Lawyer Says
7/15/07 - FDA Public Health Advisory – Safety
Warnings Regarding Use of Fentanyl Transdermal (Skin)
Patches