A federal jury Tuesday in a Children’s Motrin case returned a verdict in favor of Johnson & Johnson’s subsidiary, McNeil Consumer Healthcare, sued by the parents of a child who they claim was blinded from taking the drug at age 3.
While the jury sided with the defendants in the case of Riley Brown, a previous Children’s Motrin case—this one in Pennsylvania state court—resulted in a $10 million award for the family of a child who suffered blindness in one eye, damage to her reproductive system and permanent skin disfigurement. Most recently in that case, Maya v. Johnson & Johnson, the state Supreme Court declined to hear argument after the Superior Court upheld the verdict.
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