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 […]
It is necessary to continue urate-lowering therapy in the inpatient setting to decrease the risk of gout flare in hospitalized patients. Gout flare is almost 14-times more likely to develop in hospitalized patients who have allopurinol discontinued upon admission compared to those who have the treatment continued, according to new study findings. The findings, presented […]
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 […]
New study shows about a quarter of patients with significant exposure to the drug show signs of retinal damage. A drug widely prescribed for a bladder condition for decades, now appears to be toxic to the retina, the light sensing tissue at the back of the eye that allows us to see. After an initial […]
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 […]
By Tiffany Hsu and Roni Caryn Rabin New York Times, May 19, 2020Updated 5:44 p.m. ET 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 […]
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 […]