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 […]
(Reuters) – A Missouri trial court judge has affirmed the massive $4.69 billion verdict against Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) in a case involving 22 women and their families who alleged the company’s talc-based products, including its baby powder, contain asbestos and caused them to develop ovarian cancer. J&J in a statement on Wednesday said it […]
July 16, 2018 By Jessica Hoerman, TruLaw Eight-hours is all it took for a St. Louis jury to hand Johnson & Johnson their largest legal setback yet for their talc-based products – a $4.69 billion verdict for the role J&J played in asbestos-induced ovarian cancer of 22 women. Unlike prior talcum trials, the Ingham v. […]
St. Louis, MO, July 8,2018 – Attorneys for Johnson & Johnson defending the company from claims that asbestos supposedly present in its cosmetic talc products caused 22 women to develop ovarian cancer wrapped up their case this week in Missouri state court, with closing arguments expected next Wednesday. The closings will cap off a long-running […]
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. –– ( Apr 5, 2018) A New Jersey jury has awarded $37 million at the conclusion of the first phase of a trial against Johnson & Johnson, marking the first time a jury has found for a plaintiff on claims that the defendant’s talcum powder products contained asbestos.
(Bloomberg News, September 22, 2017) Johnson & Johnson trained its employees to reassure anyone concerned about whether the company’s talcum powder contained asbestos that the cancer-causing substance “has never been found and it never will’’ in its iconic baby powder, according to an undated memo unsealed in a lawsuit against the drug-maker. But plaintiffs say […]
June 29, 2017, Law 360 — A toxicology expert who has repeatedly testified for women alleging they developed ovarian cancer after using Johnson & Johnson’s talcum powder products on Tuesday explained her methodology to the California judge overseeing the state’s first talc trial. Toxicology and pharmacology expert Laura Plunkett defended her conclusion that talc causes […]
Law360 (June 19, 2017) — There is no question that talc is toxic and can cause genetic alterations linked to cancer, a toxicology expert for three women who died of ovarian cancer after using Johnson & Johnson’s talcum powder products told a Missouri jury on Monday. During the second day of the trial in St. […]
A Missouri jury hit Johnson & Johnson with a $110 million verdict late Thursday in a woman’s suit alleging the company’s talcum powder products caused her ovarian tumors, handing the company its largest trial loss yet in talc litigation in the state. Plaintiff Lois Slemp had alleged she developed ovarian cancer in August 2012 after […]
Across the country, there are currently over 2,500 lawsuits that aim to prove lifelong use of talcum powder, such as those manufactured by Johnson & Johnson (J&J), are linked to the development of genitourinary cancers, particularly ovarian cancer. In the vast majority of these cases, J&J is the defendant, although Colgate-Palmolive have also faced a […]