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3rd Levaquin MDL Bellwether Trial Ends With 3rd Verdict For Johnson & Johnson
Posted on 27 Jan 2012 by Tom Moylan

MINNEAPOLIS - (Mealey's) The third Levaquin multidistrict litigation tendon rupture trial ended Jan. 26 with a defense verdict, defendant Johnson & Johnson's third compared to one plaintiff victory ( Clifford Straka v. Johnson & Johnson... Read More

Tags: Minnesota Senior Citizen and Disabled Person's Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Trade Practices Act , drugs , Clifford Straka , Minnesota Consumer Fraud Act , Johnson , Levaquin , tendon rupture , Litigation , multidistrict litigation , Clifford Straka v. Johnson &amp , verdict , Janssen Pharmaceuticals , Johnson &amp

First New Jersey Levaquin Tendon Injury Trial Ends With Defense Verdict
Posted on 14 Oct 2011 by Tom Moylan

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - (Mealey's) The first trial in New Jersey's Levaquin mass tort litigation ended Oct. 14 with a defense verdict for Johnson & Johnson and subsidiary Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. ( Paul Gaffney v. Johnson &... Read More

Tags: black box warning , Paul Gaffney v. Johnson &amp , Beare , tendonitis , Johnson , Levaquin , fluoroquinolone , New Jersey , tendon rupture , Atlantic County Superior Court , drugs and devices , Litigation , antibiotic , Gaffney , Robert and Judith Beare v. Johnson &amp , Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals , mass tort , Johnson &amp

2nd Levaquin/Tendon Rupture MDL Trial Ends In Defense Verdict
Posted on 20 Jun 2011 by Tom Moylan

MINNEAPOLIS -- The second trial in the Levaquin antibiotic multidistrict litigation ended in a defense verdict June 17 when a jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota found that defendant Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc.... Read More

Tags: levofloxacin , Minnesota Consumer Fraud Act , Levaquin , MDL Docket No. 1943 , tendon rupture MDL , Calvin Christensen , Litigation , multidistrict litigation , antibiotic , Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals , alvin Christensen v. Johnson & Johnson , In Re: Levaquin Products Liability Litigation , verdict , Johnson & Johnson

Levaquin Compensatory Verdict Affirmed By 8th Circuit; Punitive Verdict Reversed
Posted on 3 Dec 2012 by Tom Moylan

ST. LOUIS — (Mealey’s) The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Nov. 30 unanimously affirmed denial of judgment as a matter of law or new trial for compensatory damages in the first Levaquin multidistrict litigation bellwether trial but... Read More

Tags: levofloxacin , Eighth Circuit , John Schedin v. Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals , Levaquin , compensatory damages , drug litigation , OMJP , Litigation , multidistrict litigation , antibiotic , corticosteroids , Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals , punitive damage , John Schedin , verdict , In Re: Levaquin Products Liability Litigation

Jury Awards $1.8 Million To Plaintiff In First Levaquin MDL Bellwether Trial
Posted on 9 Dec 2010 by Tom Moylan

MINNEAPOLIS - (Mealey's) A Minnesota federal jury on Dec. 8 awarded a plaintiff in the first Levaquin multidistrict litigation bellwether trial a total of $1,815,000 in compensatory and punitive damages after finding that manufacturer Ortho-McNeil... Read More

Tags: punitive damages , Minnesota Consumer Fraud Act , personal injury , Levaquin , product liability , fluoroquinolone , compensatory damages , Trial , FDA , Litigation , multidistrict litigation , lawsuit , antibiotic , Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals , In Re: Levaquin Products Liability Litigation , John Schedin , torts , Johnson & Johnson