Litigation

Johnson & Johnson and Duragesic - When Will the Killing End?

By Angel L. Reyes, III

As reported by me many times over the past few years, my firm has been working on hundreds of Duragesic pain patch wrongful death cases.  The cases involve leaking and defective patches manufactured by Johnson & Johnson's subsidiaries, ALZA and Janssen Pharmaceutica.  Twice our firm successfully helped victims' families achieve a measure of justice, via a jury trial, for the loss of one of their loved ones due to the malfunction of a Duragesic patch.  In both of those cases, one in Federal Court, the other in state court, the juries awarded multiple millions of dollars to the surviving family members and held Johnson & Johnson, ALZA, and Jannsen liable for the damages.

 

Perhaps when the Obama administration finally takes the reins at the FDA, we will see public safety and protection rise to the priority it once held and so richly deserves.  Neither of my firm's jury verdicts, one for $16.5 million and one for $5.5 million were flukes, they were claims made before juries who decided that defectively manufactured Duragesic fentanyl pain patches were a matter for public protection and in the end held Johnson & Johnson, ALZA, and Jannsen to be negligent.  For my money, those companies are simply being unscrupulous.


The new FDA Chairperson needs to seriously consider pulling fentanyl pain patches completely off of the market.  The product has been subject to too many known manufacturing defects and too many recalls.  Indeed, the most recent recall just occurred.  Read the full story below.  Then get a letter fired off to your Congressman telling them you believe that fentanyl "death" patches should not be available via a simple prescription for the drug currently being sold by Johnson & Johnson's subsidiaries and several generic manufacturers.  Don't wait, far too many people have died from fentanyl overdoses through no fault of their own.  This is a matter of public protection.  Spread the word.

Full post as published by Angel Reyes Blog on January 02, 2009 (boomark / email).