From the Firm's founding in 1969 through the very recent Vioxx tragedy, Raynes McCarty has been a world leader in holding big drug companies responsible for the marketing of unsafe drugs. Representing the victim of an unsafe drug requires a rare blend of the financial and emotional strength needed for years of battle; innovative thinking as to how to assemble the evidence; mastery of the underlying sciences of biology, chemistry and pharmacology, and the ability to clearly and creatively convey the story to the jury. Raynes McCarty has brought these skills to the aid of their clients for decades.

It was Arthur Raynes who led the legal campaign to stop Richardson-Merrill from exposing more American children to the risks of thalidomide. Mr. Raynes' work was featured in the book, Suffer the Children: The Story of Thalidomide, written by a special investigative team for London's Sunday Times. It was also Raynes McCarty who secured compensation for the families of 1,354 Spanish hemophiliacs who contracted HIV from defective blood products. It was one of our attorneys who represented a patient who died from taking Lotronex. We have also achieved recoveries for patients who took synthetic progestin.

In 2006, Roy DeCaro was the lead trial attorney for the family of a one year old child who died from liver failure caused by Tylenol. Mr. DeCaro convinced the jury that the drug company provided misleading and inadequate warnings about the concentration and toxicity of Infants’ Tylenol. The jury awarded the family $5,000,000.00 for the loss of their child. Recently, the trial court rejected the drug company’s request to overturn the verdict. Click here to read more about the case.