A Massachusetts jury awarded a teenage girl and her parents $63 million, after finding Johnson & Johnson failed to provide adequate warnings of the potential for negative reactions to Children's Motrin like the one that caused the girl to lose most of her skin and be left blind after taking the medication in 2003.
After taking the Childen's Motrin brand of ibuprofen for a fever, then seven-year-old Samantha Reckis developed toxic epidermal necrolysis, a rare disorder resulting from an adverse reaction to medications including ibuprofen.
The Plymouth Superior Court jury on Wednesday awarded $50 million to the girl and $6.5 million to each of her parents, finding that Johnson & Johnson and its McNeil-PPC Inc. subsidiary failed to provide sufficient warning of such potential side effects.