Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay more than US$100 million to resolve over 1,000 lawsuits blaming its baby powder for causing cancer, in the first set of major settlements in four years of litigation, people with knowledge of the pacts said. The accords, struck with several law firms, signal that the world’s largest maker […]
September 16, 2020 Press Release DeLauro in a letter to CEO Gorsky: “By concealing any notion of potential asbestos contamination of its baby powder, Johnson & Johnson violated that trust and placed millions of lives at risk.” As a survivor, DeLauro marks Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month with a call on Johnson & Johnson to remove […]
By Roni Cary Rabin, New York Times An appellate court in Missouri upheld more than $2 billion in damages against Johnson & Johnson, saying the company knew there was asbestos in its baby powder. A Missouri appeals court on Tuesday ordered Johnson & Johnson and a subsidiary to pay $2.1 billion in damages to women […]
The company has faced thousands of lawsuits from cancer patients who claim that its talc was contaminated with asbestos, a known carcinogen, and that the company knew of the risks. Johnson & Johnson is discontinuing North American sales of baby powder made with talc, a product at the center of nearly 20,000 lawsuits filed by […]
A New Jersey federal judge on Monday largely rejected Johnson & Johnson’s efforts to bar plaintiffs’ experts from testifying that J&J’s baby powder contains asbestos and that talc can cause ovarian cancer, opening a path to trials in the multidistrict litigation that contains thousands of cases. In a three-page order and accompanying 141-page opinion, U.S. District […]
Johnson & Johnson‘s attempt to dismantle a $4.69 billion talc verdict met with mixed signals Friday, as a Missouri appellate panel appeared to discount J&J’s complaints that 22 women’s claims were combined into one trial and focused more on the fact that there were 17 out-of-state plaintiffs. The appeal came in a case brought by […]
By Mike Lasusa, Law360 (February 27, 2020, 11:10 PM EST) A jury in Miami ordered Johnson & Johnsonon Thursday to pay a Florida woman $9 million after finding the consumer products behemoth caused the woman’s mesothelioma by exposing her to asbestos in baby powder it sold, with an attorney saying it’s the first such verdict in the Sunshine […]
An expert panel formed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has endorsed asbestos testing standards for cosmetics that reject long-held industry positions and reflect those of public health authorities and experts for thousands of plaintiffs who allege contaminated talc products caused their cancers. The most significant recommendation from the panel of government experts is […]
Law360 (January 6, 2020, 1:17 PM EST) — Johnson & Johnson has ended one of its latest talc trials with a midtrial settlement, a California judge announced Monday, meaning a jury that was one of the first to hear about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration‘s October finding of asbestos in a bottle of talcum powder will have […]
Oakland, CA – Opening statements took place Monday in California state court at the latest Johnson & Johnson talc/mesothelioma lawsuit to go to trial, while jury selection began Wednesday in Missouri state court at the second ovarian cancer talc trial since 2018, with both trials being webcast gavel-to-gavel by Courtroom View Network. Both trials are being […]