Emily Field reporting for Law 360 Johnson & Johnson was hit with $300 million in punitive damages on Friday after a New York state jury found the company responsible for a woman’s mesothelioma she developed after decades of using J&J talc bath products. The jury earlier in May awarded plaintiff Donna Olson, 66, and her husband, […]
–by Dorothy Atkins with Additional reporting by Daniel Siegal and Cara Salvatore. Editing by Jay Jackson Jr. A California judge refused Friday to grant Johnson & Johnson a new trial after a jury found the company’s talcum-based baby powder contained cancer-causing asbestos that caused a woman’s mesothelioma and said the $29.5 million award isn’t excessive since it’s […]
Dan Siegal reporting for Law 360. A 61-year-old woman who says asbestos in talcum powder products made by Johnson & Johnson and Colgate-Palmolive caused her mesothelioma gave tearful testimony Monday to a California jury about her decades of talc use and the pain caused by her terminal cancer. At the beginning of the third week of trial in Alameda […]
The company sought for decades to shore up weakening sales of its iconic talc with ads aimed at specific types of women – many of the same types who today are among those alleging in thousands of lawsuits that J&J powder caused their cancers. By CHRIS KIRKHAM and LISA GIRION Filed April 9, 2019, 1 p.m. GMT LOS […]
Law360 (March 13, 2019, 9:20 PM EDT) — A California state jury on Wednesday found Johnson & Johnson’s talcum-based baby powder contained cancer-causing asbestos and caused a woman’s mesothelioma, awarding nearly $29.5 million. After deliberating for roughly two days, the Oakland jury returned with a verdict in favor of plaintiff Teresa E. Leavitt, finding that J&J’s baby […]
Legal costs of 14,000 claims are swamping J&J’s talc supplier Judge will oversee effort to use trust to settle talc suits Imerys Talc America Inc., which supplies talc for products including Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder, filed for bankruptcy protection in an effort to end nearly a decade’s worth of lawsuits claiming its product causes cancer. […]
Murray demands answers from Johnson & Johnson CEO following Reuters report indicating the company covered up potential asbestos in its baby powder for decades. Washington, D.C. – Yesterday, Senator Patty Murray, (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, sent a letter to Alex Gorsky, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Johnson & […]
By Douglas Starr, Jan. 24, 2019 In a St. Louis, Missouri, courtroom last summer, David Egilman testified in a lawsuit filed by 22 women who claimed to have contracted ovarian cancer from exposure to Johnson & Johnson (J&J) baby powder. Like millions of women before them, they had dusted their babies with the powder and used it […]
An attorney representing a woman dying of mesothelioma told a California jury during trial opening Monday that Johnson & Johnson knew for decades its talcum powder products contained cancer-causing asbestos but failed to warn consumers about its risks or replace the talc with less-toxic cornstarch. During the first day of a trial in Oakland, the jury […]
Facing thousands of lawsuits alleging that its talc caused cancer, J&J insists on the safety and purity of its iconic product. But internal documents examined by Reuters show that the company’s powder was sometimes tainted with carcinogenic asbestos and that J&J kept that information from regulators and the public. A REUTERS INVESTIGATION Darlene Coker knew […]