{"id":318,"date":"2010-04-12T11:50:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T17:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/?p=318"},"modified":"2010-04-12T11:50:10","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T17:50:10","slug":"judge-approves-110-million-settlement-for-e-ferol-infant-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/judge-approves-110-million-settlement-for-e-ferol-infant-deaths.html","title":{"rendered":"Judge Approves $110 Million Settlement For E-Ferol Infant Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>A federal judge last Friday approved a $110 million class-action settlement against the manufacturer and distributor of E-Ferol, an intravenous vitamin E supplement blamed for the deaths of roughly 40 premature babies in the mid-1980s.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5ilowHbtEzzgYkDtSfASw-w1Vo6mgD9F0J4Q02\">http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5ilowHbtEzzgYkDtSfASw-w1Vo6mgD9F0J4Q02<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>The settlement for the 369 plaintiffs, who had filed suit in Wichita Falls in Texas, was approved by U.S. District Court Judge Sidney Fitzwater.<\/p>\r\n<p>E-Ferol, recalled in April 1984 after being on the market just over four months, was marketed as drug to prevent or reduce the chances of blindness in premature infants. E-Ferol didn\u2019t have FDA approval for that use.<\/p>\r\n<p>E-Ferol\u2019s maker, Carter-Glogau Laboratories of Glendale, Ariz., and its distributor, O\u2019Neal, Jones &amp; Feldman Pharmaceuticals of Maryland Heights, Mo., are no longer in business.<\/p>\r\n<p>Carter-Glogau and its former president, Ronald Carter, were indicted in 1987 along with the ex-president of O\u2019Neal, Larry Hiland, according to the Associated Press. They were found guilty of conspiracy, marketing an unapproved drug and misbranding a drug.<\/p>\r\n<p>The two officials were sentenced to six months in jail, and the company was fined $130,000, AP reported.<\/p>\r\n<p>The class-action suit, which includes the parents of 42 infants as plaintiffs, was filed in 2003.\u00a0 There have been more than 100 previous settlements involving E-Ferol.<\/p>\r\n<p>While federal health officials linked E-Ferol to 40 deaths, the attorney in the class action suit, Art Brender, put that number at 80, according to AP.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0E-Ferol caused liver and kidney failure in the babies.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge last Friday approved a $110 million class-action settlement against the manufacturer and distributor of E-Ferol, an intravenous vitamin E supplement blamed for the deaths of roughly 40 premature babies in the mid-1980s.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5ilowHbtEzzgYkDtSfASw-w1Vo6mgD9F0J4Q02 The settlement for the 369 plaintiffs, who had filed suit in Wichita Falls in Texas, was approved by U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[400,399,398,397,401],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-carter-glogau-laboratories","tag-class-action-suit","tag-e-ferol-deaths","tag-e-ferol-infant-deaths","tag-oneal-jones-feldman-pharmaceticals"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}