Personal Injury Law

Litigation Again Reveals What Big Pharma Wants Kept Secret

Recent federal court filings in the Ortho Evra products liability litigation disclosed that Johnson & Johnson hid data from the FDA about their birth control patch?s side effects and failed to address flaws in the manufacturing process which could increase the risk of serious and potentially fatal problems. The factual allegations were publicly released as part of the plaintiffs? opposition to a motion by Johnson & Johnson to dismiss the claims of women injured by their birth control patch. The allegations include that Johnson & Johnson applied an apparently random ?correction factor? of 60% to tests that measured the level of estrogen in the blood, which resulted in a false reporting of 60% less estrogen to the FDA. Without litigation, this information might never have been disclosed.

Full post as published by Legal Blog on June 05, 2008 (boomark / email).