The only Thalidomide trial that ever ended with a jury verdict took place in Los Angeles in 1971. Richardson-Merrill had to pay $2.5 million to a nine-year-old female survivor and $250,000 to her mother (about $15 million in today’s dollars).

Source: Michael Magazanik: Silent Shock. The Men behind the Thalidomide Scandal and an Australian Family’s Long Road to Justice. Melbourne 2015, Brief Chronology.