LOS ANGELES - (Mealey's) A California state court jury on Oct. 3 awarded $48.1 million to a 22-year-old man who says Johnson & Johnson and subsidiary McNeil Consumer Healthcare failed to warn him that the nonprescription pain and fever remedy... Read More

On January 24, 2010, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals joined the Fifth and Eighth Circuits, in extending the Supreme Court's decision in Wyeth v. Levine to state law failure-to-warn claims against makers of generic drugs. The Ninth Circuit held... Read More

SAN FRANCISCO -- A mother's failure-to-warn claim against a manufacturer of generic ibuprofen is not preempted under the U.S. Supreme Court's prescription drug preemption ruling in Wyeth v. Diana Levine , a panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S.... Read More

PHILADELPHIA — (Mealey’s) A Pennsylvania appeals court panel on July 22 affirmed a $10 million Children’s Motrin verdict for a girl who suffered toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) after being given the over-the-counter pain/fever reducer... Read More

During its October 28, 2011, conference, the U.S. Supreme Court remanded to the Ninth Circuit its ruling denying federal preemption to a generic manufacturer of ibuprofen to be reassessed in light of the Court's Mensing decision last term. The remand... Read More