Roche Ordered to Pay $25 Million to Accutane User

February 18, 2010

Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) — Roche Holding AG, the Swiss drugmaker, must pay $25.16 million in damages to a former user of its Accutane drug who blamed the acne medicine for his inflammatory bowel disease, a New Jersey jury ruled.

 

Andrew McCarrell, 38, won the verdict today at a retrial in Atlantic City, New Jersey. An appeals court ordered the new trial after overturning a $2.62 million award he won in May 2007. McCarrell, a computer technician from Birmingham, Alabama, testified he got sick after taking the drug for acne in 1995. He needed five surgeries, including one to remove his colon.

 

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Larimer County approves $4.1 settlement in Tim Masters’ lawsuit

Tim Masters, who served 10 years for a murder conviction that was later overturned, received some measure of recompense Tuesday when Larimer County commissioners approved a $4.1 million payment to settle claims Masters brought in a lawsuit.

 

The money, Masters’ attorneys said, will go to help rebuild Masters’ life. But it will do little to undo the harm Masters suffered during his decade behind bars and the decade prior to that he spent under police scrutiny for the 1987 slaying of Peggy Hettrick, the lawyers said.

 

 

 

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Judge: Dissing a teacher on Facebook is protected speech

A federal judge in Florida has ruled that a student’s ranting about her high school teacher on a Facebook page is protected by the First Amendment, The Miami Herald reports.

 

Katherine “Katie” Evans, a 17-year old student at Pembroke Pines Charter Schools, was suspended in 2007 for three days and bumped from Advanced Placement classes after setting up a Facebook page for three days to complain about “the worst teacher I’ve ever met,” the newspaper says.

 

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Weighed down by recession woes, jurors are becoming disgruntled

Spurned in his effort to get out of jury duty, salesman Tony Prados turned his attention to the case that could cost him three weeks’ pay: A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy was suing his former sergeant, alleging severe emotional distress inflicted by lewd and false innuendo that he was gay.

 

Prados, an ex-Marine, leaned forward in the jury box and asked in a let-me-get-this-straight tone of voice: “He’s brave enough to go out and get shot at by anyone but he couldn’t handle this?” he said of the locker-room taunting.

 

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State creating teams to investigate complaints about nursing homes

Faced with alarming delays in investigating nursing home complaints, the state is creating teams to speed up scrutiny.

State nursing home investigators blew their deadlines to investigate complaints of “high potential of harm” against residents in all but 33.4 percent of investigations in fiscal 2009, according to state statistics. That continues a slide in recent years. In fiscal 2008, 38.8 percent of investigations were started on time, and in 2007, 42.3 percent.

In such complaints, mental, physical or psychosocial harm is possible, though not imminent, and an investigation must be initiated within 14 days.

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