Created: 02 April 2009
The New York Law Journal (4/2, Fass) reports that three decades after his daughter had been immunized against polio and Mr. Tenuto contracted the disease after coming in contact with the infant’s stool, becoming paralyzed, he “has won a $22.3 million verdict in New York state court against Lederle Laboratories, the giant pharmaceutical company he claims negligently manufactured the vaccine Orimune and failed to adequately warn doctors of its dangers.”