Cotton Lamb Costume Caught Fire

In 1984, a Michigan man named Frank Ferlito and his wife, a woman named Susan Ferlito, dressed as "Mary and her little lamb" for a Halloween party. Susan created the lamb costume by gluing Johnson & Johnson cotton batting to Frank's long underwear, but Frank set his left arm ablaze while lighting a cigarette and suffered burns across more than one-third of his body. The couple sued Johnson & Johnson, and a jury awarded Frank $555,000 and Susan $70,000 in 1989. Johnson & Johnson secured a new trial in 1991, and an appeals court ruled in the company's favor in 1992.

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