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Stand up comedian Andrew Santino claims Roche sponsered CBS, says their lawyers forbade him from talking critically of Accutane., the only time he was censored on the station
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Rogan and the others are audibly agahst and shocked at the side effects discussed
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There’s some discussion of the case of Andrew McCarrell:
New Jersey’s top court reinstated a $25 million jury award on Tuesday — one of the largest in recent years — for an Alabama man who became seriously ill after taking Accutane, an acne medication.
Nearly 3,600 similar lawsuits are pending in New Jersey against the drugmaker Hoffman LaRoche, a Swiss company that sold Accutane in the United States from 1982 to 2009. The state Supreme Court’s unanimous decision on Tuesday is expected to affect a small subset of those cases.
Andrew McCarrell, an Alabama resident who took Accutane for four months in 1995, was diagnosed the following year with inflammatory bowel disease. A series of surgeries and complications followed, and McCarrell’s colon and rectum were removed and replaced with a surgically constructed reservoir.
Roche for many years did business in the United States from its campus in Nutley, and McCarrell sued the drugmaker in New Jersey Superior Court in 2003, alleging that the label on Accutane failed to include proper warnings about potential health risks.
A jury awarded McCarrell $25 million in damages in 2010, what was then the largest award in the country for an Accutane suit. But an appeals court later tossed out the verdict, finding that McCarrell had filed his lawsuit too late under Alabama law.
In a long-awaited decision 14 years after McCarrell filed his lawsuit, the New Jersey Supreme Court overturned the appellate panel’s ruling and reinstated the $25 million verdict. The state justices ruled that McCarrell could rely on New Jersey law instead of Alabama law.
“New Jersey has a substantial interest in deterring its manufacturers from developing, making, and distributing unsafe products, including inadequately labeled prescription drugs,” Justice Barry Albin wrote for the court. “Our state’s interest extends to protecting not just the citizens of this state, but also the citizens of other states, from unreasonably dangerous products originating from New Jersey.”
Alabama and New Jersey each have a statute of limitations that runs for two years on product-liability lawsuits, but in New Jersey, the clock does not begin to run “until the injured party discovers, or by an exercise of reasonable diligence and intelligence should have discovered that he may have a basis for an actionable claim,” Albin wrote.
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