J&J Unit Ordered to Pay $10 Million Over Motrin Injuries
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A Johnson & Johnson unit must pay $10 million in damages to the family of a 13-year-old girl who suffered skin burns and eye damage after she took Children’s Motrin to treat a fever and cough, a Pennsylvania jury ruled.
Jurors in state court in Philadelphia deliberated for 10 hours over two days before holding J&J’s McNeil Consumer Products unit liable for Brianna Maya’s injuries. Maya, now 13, was left blind in one eye and suffered burns over 84 percent of her body after taking Motrin in 2000 when she was 3 1/2.