South Carolina’s Supreme Court ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay a penalty of $136 million, upholding a jury’s finding that the drugmaker’s Janssen unit had improperly marketed its anti-psychotic drug Risperdal and concealed its risks. A trial court had earlier …
Charleston, South Carolina-based managing general agency Johnson & Johnson has named Cathy Parmley as vice president of operations. Parmley has 20 years of experience with Johnson & Johnson, most recently serving as vice president of personal lines, overseeing habitation, high …
Charleston, South Carolina’s Johnson & Johnson has acquired Stateside Underwriting Agency Inc. (SUA) in Crystal Lake, Illinois, and Chagrin Falls, Ohio. SUA will continue to operate under the leadership of Richard Nowell and Chad Gaizutis, according to Johnson & Johnson …
The Arkansas Supreme Court overturned a $1.2 billion judgment against Johnson & Johnson in a lawsuit challenging the drug maker’s marketing of the antipsychotic drug Risperdal. The agreement was the third-largest settlement with a drug maker in U.S. history. The …
Johnson & Johnson, a Charleston, South Carolina managing general agency, has acquired wholesale broker H.T. Bailey Insurance Group in Burlington and Quincy, Mass. Under its new ownership, H.T. Bailey will continue to offer products and services to independent agents and …
A jury awarded $8.3 million to a former prison guard who accused Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy Orthopaedics subsidiary of knowingly marketing a faulty hip implant that was later recalled. Jurors found that the ASR XL implant was defectively designed and …
A jury said Johnson & Johnson should pay a South Dakota woman $3.35 million for failing to adequately warn her doctor of the potential dangers of a vaginal mesh implant made by the company’s Ethicon Inc. subsidiary, and for misrepresenting …
A lawsuit that accuses Johnson & Johnson of knowingly marketing a faulty hip implant that lawyers say left thousands of people with crippling problems or in need of replacement surgeries is underway. The fraud and negligence suit is the first …
Louisiana’s 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal has upheld a $257.7 million jury verdict in a lawsuit brought by Attorney General Buddy Caldwell against Janssen Pharmaceutical and Johnson & Johnson for defrauding the state’s Medicaid program, the attorney general’s office announced. …
A lawsuit in which Texas accused Johnson & Johnson of plundering the state Medicaid program by overstating the safety of an expensive anti-psychotic drug and improperly influencing officials and doctors to push the medication has been settled for $158 million, …
