Defendants Designate Experts in Remicade Wrongful Death Case

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Defendant Centocor has designated experts in a wrongful death suit filed by a South Carolina man whose wife died after being treated with Remicade. Huff v. Centocor Inc., et al., No. 04-1279 (D. S.C.).

The Aug. 4 designation filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina includes three experts who have been designated to testify at trial. Centocor has also indicated that it reserves the right to elicit testimony from three additional experts, all of them company officials.

Centocor, Johnson & Johnson and Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical Inc. were all named in a complaint filed …