Jury Awards $16.5 Million in Fentanyl Death Case

A board in Chicago has begin two Johnson & Johnson subsidiaries accountable in the afterlife of a Cicero, Ill., woman who died while application a Duragesic® patch, and ordered the companies to pay her ancestors $16,560,000.

The adjudication in the case involving 38-year-old Janice DiCosolo, a mother of three, was delivered in Judge Thomas Flanagan’s attorneys in the Cook County Circuit Court, afterwards a three-week trial.

When Mrs. DiCosolo died on February 15, 2004, she was application a Duragesic application that her doctor assigned to abate the about connected affliction she accomplished as a aftereffect of a acoustic action alleged reflex affectionate dystrophy. Duragesic is a application absolute a gel anatomy of the biologic fentanyl, which is 100-times stronger than morphine.

In the lawsuit, Mrs. DiCosolo’s ancestors argued that the defendants, Titusville, N.J.-based Janssen Pharmaceutica Inc. and Mountain View, Calif.-based ALZA Corporation, knew about the Duragesic patch’s problems, which accustomed the patches to aperture fentanyl in amounts ample abundant to annihilate the patients application it. Both Janssen and ALZA are subsidiaries of Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ).

“They knew this application was alarming and abnormal but they connected to advertise it and accomplish money, and that’s the alone acumen Janice DiCosolo is dead,” says advocate Jim Orr of Heygood, Orr, Reyes, Pearson & Bartolomei (HORP&B) in Dallas, admonition for the DiCosolo family. “They even knew there was a safer design, one that would anticipate the fentanyl from leaking, but they chose not to use it,” added Orr’s accomplice Michael Heygood, who aswell represented the DiCosolo ancestors at trial.

The application that Mrs. DiCosolo was application at the time of her afterlife was allotment of a beyond accumulation of patches that ALZA recalled in 2004. That aforementioned year, an FDA investigator begin deficiencies in ALZA’s accomplishment practices and above ascendancy affirmation behavior and procedures.

“The angishore that awash this application beatific Mr. DiCosolo a letter canicule afterwards his wife’s afterlife to acquaint him about the recall,” says advocate John Cushing of The Law Offices of John Cushing in Chicago, who aswell represented the DiCosolo family. “This was a adverse afterlife that didn’t accept to happen.”

Also apery the DiCosolo ancestors at balloon was Charles Miller, aswell of HORP&B.
This is the additional Duragesic case area HORP&B has prevailed on account of a applicant who absent a admired one due to a abnormal fentanyl patch. Last year, a federal cloister board in Florida awarded $5.5 actor to the ancestors of 28-year-old Adam Hendelson, who died while application a Duragesic application that was assigned for hip pain.

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