Seeger Weiss
New Jersey Jury Awards $25.16 Million to Patient Whose Use of Roche Acne Medication Accutane Found to Cause Severe Bowel Illness
Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, March 5th, 2010
In another major courtroom verdict linking powerful acne medication Accutane with long-term inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a nine-person New Jersey jury has found that pharmaceutical maker Hoffman-La Roche Inc. failed to provide an adequate warning of the possible condition to Andrew McCarrell's prescribing physician, which then led to his development of chronic IBD. Mr. McCarrell, who was 23 at the time he took Accutane, developed a severe case of IBD and thereafter had his colon removed. The jury awarded compensatory damages of $25.16 million to Andy, now in his thirties.
The verdict capped a five-week trial in New Jersey Superior Court and follows a series of...
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