J&J’s Talc Lit The Spark For Doctor’s Fatal Cancer, Jury Told

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Carolina Bolado · Law 360 Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder was the ‘spark’ that caused the cancer that killed a Miami anesthesiologist, an attorney for her widower told jurors Friday as he urged them to punish the company for hiding the product’s cancer links from consumers. In closing statements in Miami, Lance Oliver, who represents Marilyn Seskin’s […]

Robotic device burned a woman’s small intestine during surgery, lawsuit alleges

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By Aria Bendix, NBC News A robotic device burned and tore a woman’s small intestine while she was undergoing surgery for colon cancer, according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed this week in Florida. The woman, Sandra Sultzer, developed abdominal pain and fever after her surgery in September 2021 and needed additional procedures to close the […]