The jury of Virginia U. S. District Court has ordered the Allergan Inc. to pay $212 million to a man who has claimed that injections of wrinkle-smoothing Botox left him with brain damage. Afterwards, on Thursday, the company has claimed that the 67-years old-man, Douglas M. Ray, was granted with an amount of $12 million as compensatory damages and $200 million as punitive damages.

The Botox is a purified form of the poison botulinum and given as an injection to smooth the wrinkles further, it is licensed to treat the muscular stiffness of the fingers and arms.

Ray blamed the company for his health losses and said that he was injured soon after getting Botox injections to relieve a hand tremor and writer's cramp. On the other hand, the company, Allergan, in a defensive statement said that there was no clue that can support that the company lacks adequate information about the latent risks of the drug. In addition to this there was no proof that Botox imparted the negative symptoms on him.

Van Hove, a Spokeswoman for Irvine, California-based Allergan said: “Every known and knowable risk associated with Botox treatment based on the scientific properties of the drug was in fact warned about”.