This case resulted in a $500,000 award for Timothy Stange in December 2015. Stange’s attorneys argued in court that not only did Janssen conceal information about the risk of increased prolactin levels, which results in enlargement of breast tissue, the drug company also lied on its labeling information. The Risperdal label claims that gynecomastia only occurred in one case for every 1,000. But counsel claimed that the incidence rate was closer to five cases in 1,000 Risperdal patients.
Now, Judge Kenneth J. Powell Jr, after outlining the post-trial arguments from both sides in Stange v. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, “asked the Superior Court to affirm the jury’s findings that Janssen Pharmaceuticals failed to warn about Risperdal’s link to excess growth of breast tissue and that its negligence caused plaintiff Timothy Stange’s injuries,” according to The Legal Intelligencer. Powell said that “[Janssen] lost a fair trial and now they must pay a fair price.”
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Rispderdal settlement
Just days before the above announcement, a Risperdal case that was expected to go to trial (May 2016) was settled for an unknown amount. Plaintiff Robert Moffat claimed that Johnson & Johnson and Janssen failed to warn that side effects of its antipsychotic medication caused gynecomastia - male breasts - among boys and young men.
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