A federal jury on Tuesday awarded $5.5 million to the father of a man who died while wearing a drug patch made by two Johnson & Johnson subsidiaries.
The jury in Federal District Court in West Palm Beach found that Janssen Pharmaceutica Products and the Alza Corporation, both based in New Jersey, were liable in the death of Adam Hendelson, 28, who died in 2003 while wearing the companies’ Duragesic patch.
The patch delivers controlled doses of the powerful painkiller fentanyl.
Mr. Hendelson suffered chronic hip pain after a car accident and wore the patch on his arm, said to Jim Orr, a lawyer for Mr. Hendelson’s father, Lee, who filed the lawsuit on behalf of his son’s estate.
The younger Mr. Hendelson was found dead at his computer. Mr. Orr said tests showed he had at least three times the lethal dose of fentanyl in his system at the time of his death.
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