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 – Attorneys for both sides claimed the other fabricated science during closing remarks on July 11 after a month-long trial in a lawsuit in which 22 women allege the baby powder they used made by Johnson & Johnson gave them ovarian cancer. “You’re fighting one of the largest companies (J&J) in the world,” […]
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 […]
Law360 (June 6, 2018, 9:30 PM EDT) — Twenty-two women who say they got cancer from longtime use of Johnson & Johnson talcum powder went to trial against the company Wednesday morning in St. Louis, saying J&J willfully ignored evidence that the powder, a daily ritual for millions, was riddled with asbestos. Wednesday’s openings in […]
Law360 (May 23, 2018, 10:01 PM EDT) — Attorneys sparred Wednesday in New Jersey state court over a defense bid to toss verdicts totaling $117 million in damages against Johnson & Johnson and its talc supplier, Imerys Talc America Inc., on the grounds that a man’s decades-long exposure to the pharmaceutical giant’s asbestos-containing talcum powder […]
Law360 (May 24, 2018, 12:03 AM EDT) — A California jury on Wednesday hit Johnson & Johnson with $21.7 million in compensatory damages in a trial over its talc baby powder’s alleged connection with asbestos cancer, the plaintiff’s attorneys told Law360. In a complaint filed in June, Joanne Anderson claimed she developed malignant mesothelioma as […]
Johnson & Johnson and a talc-mining company were ordered by jurors to pay $80 million in punitive damages for hiding that their products, including J&J’s iconic baby powder, had been tainted by asbestos and posed a cancer risk. The New Jersey jury’s award brings to a total of $117 million that J&J and a unit […]
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.
Johnson & Johnson’s talcum powder contained asbestos for years, and the company hid this fact from consumers and regulators by using tests it knew wouldn’t detect the toxic mineral, counsel for a man alleging J&J products caused his mesothelioma said Tuesday during closing arguments in a New Jersey trial. During the start of closing arguments […]
Another talcum powder lawsuit is heading to trial, as jury selection for a case involving the alleged link between Johnson & Johnson’s talc-based powders and a deadly form of cancer called mesothelioma began earlier this month in New Jersey’sMiddlesex County Superior Court. The Plaintiff, a 46-year-old man from Verona, New Jersey, alleges that his frequent […]