Health care giant Johnson & Johnson has spent a reported $68.7 million to settle hundreds of lawsuits filed by women who suffered personal injury after using the company’s Ortho Evra birth-control patch. Twenty wrongful deaths are blamed on the birth-control patch which is alleged to cause medical problems involving deep-vein thrombosis, blood clots and pulmonary embolisms.

Our Orlando attorneys are troubled by Johnson & Johnson’s lack of warning about the risks associated with this birth-control product. A shocking 4,000 women have filed lawsuits in state and federal courts as a result of Johnson & Johnson’s negligence, according to Bloomberg News. The settlements include $1.25 million for the death of a 14-year-old girl who had two blood clots in her lungs after using the patch. Other wrongful deaths involving Johnson & Johnson’s birth-control patch include an 18-year-old college student, a high school junior who developed a blood clot in her lung after wearing the patch for six months, and a 41-year-old mother of two who used the patch for less than a year when she suffered a pulmonary embolism and died.

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