La. Federal Judge Grants McNeil Judgment in Children’s Motrin Failure-To-Warn Case

NEW ORLEANS — A Louisiana federal judge has granted McNeil Consumer Healthcare judgment as a matter of law on failure-to-warn claims asserted in a Children’s Motrin lawsuit, finding the plaintiff failed to establish causation.

In a May 5 order, Judge Jane T. Milazzo of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana explained that the plaintiff failed to present evidence showing that her decision to give her daughter Children’s Motrin would have been changed had she been provided with a different warning.

Keisha Hunt alleges that her minor daughter developed Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and/or Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis after ingesting …