$1 Billion J&J Settlement Rejected as Insufficient

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Federal prosecutors have rejected as insufficient the $1 billion settlement reached two months ago between Johnson & Johnson and prosecutors in Philadelphia to resolve claims related to fraudulent and unapproved marketing of Risperdal for, among other things, children and the elderly.

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Kermit Cole
Kermit Cole is a licensed marriage and family therapist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He and his partner, Luisa Putnam, joined by their mutual interest in working with trauma and psychosis, studied Open Dialogue in Finland and Peer-supported Open Dialogue in the UK in order to practice and teach as a team. In 2011, they joined with Robert Whitaker to found the Mad in America website

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  1. I’m not sure what dollar amount would be compensation for the injury caused by J&J.

    What’s a life worth?
    A thousand lives?
    Tens of thousands?

    Because, make no mistake, lives were lost.
    By premature death.
    And by severely dimishing the quality of life.

    A summation on justice –

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVZFlBJftgg

    “If you want peace, search for justice.” – Pope Paul VI

    Duane Sherry
    discoverandrecover.wordpress.com

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