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 […]
CVN screenshot of plaintiff attorney Moshe Maimon delivering his opening statement in Alameda County 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 […]
By Julie Creswell and Sheila Kaplan, New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — In the face of mounting investigations, subpoenas and lawsuits, Juul Labs has insisted that it never marketed or knowingly sold its trendy e-cigarettes and flavored nicotine pods to teenagers. As youth vaping soared and “juuling” became a high school craze, the company’s top executives have stood firm in […]
Topline: A former executive at embattled e-cigarette firm Juul has alleged in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday that the company knew it had sold 1 million contaminated pods to consumers and retailers but did not inform them. Former senior VP of global finance Siddharth Breja claims that he was “inappropriately terminated” after he internally flagged […]
A Philadelphia jury returned a $33.7 million verdict on Monday after agreeing that Rex Medical LP had defectively designed a clot-catching vein filter that perforated a major blood vessel and became permanently lodged inside a woman’s body. Jurors sided with claims from Georgia resident Tracy Reed-Brown that defects in Rex’s so-called Option filter, which was […]
By Tiffany Hsu and Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times Johnson & Johnson is recalling a shipment of baby powder after the Food and Drug Administration discovered evidence of asbestos, the company said on Friday, after months spent denying the presence of the carcinogen in its talc-based products. In a test, the regulator found trace […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Only two years ago, electronic cigarettes were viewed as a small industry with big potential to improve public health by offering a path to steer millions of smokers away from deadly cigarettes. That promise led U.S. regulators to take a hands-off approach to e-cigarette makers, including a Silicon Valley startup named Juul […]