$150M In Punitives Awarded For Misrepresentation In 1st AndroGel MDL Bellwether

( July 25, 2017, 10:00 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — An Illinois federal jury on July 24 found that AbbVie Inc. is not liable to an AndroGel plaintiff for his heart attack but said that the defendant fraudulently misrepresented the testosterone replacement therapy drug and awarded the plaintiff $150 million in punitive damages in the first multidistrict litigation verdict (In Re:  Testosterone Replacement Therapy Products Liability Litigation, MDL Docket No. 2545, No. 14-1748, Jesse Mitchell, et al. v. AbbVie, Inc., et al., No. 14-9178, N.D. Ill.)....

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