Plaintiff’s Counsel Vows to Have $8B Risperdal Verdict Reinstated
Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Kenneth Powell reduced an October 2019 $8 billion punitive damages verdict against J&J to $6.8 million. A jury had awarded the figure over allegations that J&J’s drug Risperdal caused the plaintiff to grow breasts as a young boy. The $6.8 million reduced verdict is 10 times the jury verdict […]
Superior Court Allows Punitive Damages in Risperdal Mass Torts
In a significant ruling by the Pennsylvania Superior Court, Janssen, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson (J&J), will now face punitive damages in Risperdal mass tort suits. A previous Philadelphia trial court ruling prohibited punitive damages. Boys and young men who developed gynecomastia, female-like breasts, from taking the antipsychotic drug and whose cases had already […]
