Product Liability
Teenager Awarded $63 Million after Losing Skin from Taking Motrin
Nearly a decade ago, a seven-year-old girl suffered a rare side effect of Children’s Motrin that left her blind and without 90 percent of her skin. Fox News reports that the victim, who is now a teenager, and her family have been awarded $63 million by a Massachusetts jury in their product liability case against Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary, McNeil-PPC Inc.
Officials say she suffered from toxic epidermal necrolysis after taking Motrin for fever. She lost most of her skin, was blinded, suffered short-term memory loss, and her respiratory system was seared. She was awarded $50 million in compensatory damages and her parents were awarded $6.5 million each.
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