Johnson & Johnson Ignored Duragesic Pain Patch Defects, Lawyer Says
Johnson & Johnson Ignored Duragesic Pain Patch Defects, Lawyer Says
Bloomberg.com
By Jef Feeley
NEW BRUNSWICK
– Johnson & Johnson officials
knew some of the company's Duragesic
pain patches for treating pain had defects and failed to warn
consumers, a lawyer argued in the first federal
product-liability case to go to trial over the
devices.
Executives at J&J's Janssen
Pharmaceutica Products and Alza
Corp. units "turned a
blind eye" to reports that some patches
leaked, Jim Orr, a lawyer for the family of Adam
Hendelson, said Tuesday. The family contends
that the 28-year-old Florida man died of an overdose
of the pain medication released by his patch.
The companies "knew that leaking patches
were coming off their assembly line," Orr
told jurors in federal court in West Palm Beach,
Fla., in opening arguments in the trial of a
lawsuit filed by Hendelson's family over his
death. The Johnson & Johnson units "provided
no warning at all," he said.
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