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A jury has awarded $63 million to the family of a 7-year-old girl who lost her eyesight and nearly died after taking Children’s Motrin. The popular drug can cause a rare disease known as toxic epidermal necrolysis, or “TEN,” that eats away a person’s skin. “It’s like having your skin burned off of you. Imagine your worst sunburn times 1,000. It’s an absolutely devastating condition,” said the family’s attorneys, Bradley M. Henry, of the law firm Meehan, Boyle, Black & …

A judge has drastically reduced a $3 million jury verdict awarded to the widow of a worker who died from cancer after years of handling products made with asbestos. Companies have been ordered by juries to pay millions of dollars only to have the damages slashed by a judge after trial. Under “tort reform,” many states have passed laws that limit how much an injured person can collect, such as by capping damages at a few hundred thousand dollars. Juries …

A jury has ordered Ford to pay a mother $19 million for an accident in which an Explorer SUV rolled over and killed her 17-year-old son. It has been a long legal battle for Joan Hall-Edwards, who has had to endure multiple trials spanning more than ten years. Hall-Edwards sued Ford after the 1997 accident on a Florida highway between Naples and Miama that took her son, Lance. The teenager was asleep in a 1996 Ford Explorer when the driver …

Opening arguments took place Jan. 25 in the trial of a lawsuit brought in California against Johnson & Johnson by a patient who received the company’s allegedly faulty “ASR” implant in hip replacement surgery. The device at issue, called the Articular Surface Replacement (ASR), is a metal ball and socket, the parts of which can grind against each other and release metal into the body, which can be toxic and require revision surgery.   Focus on Internal Documents J&J’s DePuy …

An appeals court has thrown out a $17.5 million jury verdict against Exxon won by a worker nearly two years ago. Rubert “Bert” Minton was exposed to asbestos when he worked on 17 Exxon oil tankers as a supervisor for his employer, a shipbuilding company in Newport News, Va., for over a decade. He developed mesothelioma, a cancer caused by asbestos exposure that attacks the lung’s linings. Minton and his wife, Linda, sued Exxon, arguing it knew about the dangers …