Jury Sides With Plaintiff in Accutane Case
A New Jersey jury has awarded a man $25.16 million in a lawsuit against Swiss drug-maker Roche Holding AG in which he claimed that taking the drug Accutane caused his inflammatory bowl disease. Andrew McCarrell claimed that when he got sick in 1995 after taking Accutane, an acne drug, he needed five surgeries and had to have his colon removed. The verdict was the largest of six for Accutane users who won awards totaling $56 million.


