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• Talc, Asbestos, and the Johnson & Johnson Verdict: What Does it All Mean?
  The issue of the possible dangers posed by talc-based products has become rather complicated over the past few months. As a result, we wanted to take a moment to review the current goings-on, touch on the multiple facets that are now involved, and offer a bit of analysis. What began as questions ove...

• New Yorker Magazine Publishes Blistering Indictment of Johnson & Johnson and Corporate America
  A new story posted to The New Yorker penned by Casey Cep offers up one of the most comprehensive and infuriating views into the ongoing scandal over Johnson & Johnson talc products and the impact they have had on Americans’ health, particularly women. The contamination of J&J’s talc prod...

• Johnson & Johnson Legal Exploit Spurs Congressional Reaction, Legislation
  Recoiling in horror from the unconscionable exploit of the American legal system perpetuated by Johnson & Johnson in sidestepping its liability for millions of potential cases of cancer across the country, members of Congress have introduced the Nondebtor Release Prohibition Act of 2021. The leg...

• BASF Agrees to Talc Asbestos Settlement
  With close to 20,000 cases pending against it, Johnson & Johnson may be the first wrong-doer to come to mind when it comes to the risk of asbestos contamination of the nation’s talc-based products. It is, however, far from the only culprit. One of the others, German chemical company BASF, rece...

• Multibillion Dollar Talc Award Cut, but Verdict Stands
  It was the sixth largest financial award in the history of the country’s legal system. And while it has been cut in half by a Missouri appeals court, its implications for ongoing talc litigation are significant. When a St. Louis jury awarded 22 women over $4.5 billion after finding that asbestos p...

• J&J Ends Talc-based Baby Powder Sales in US & Canadian Markets
  The world’s largest healthcare goods manufacturer has pulled one of its cornerstone products from shelves across the United States and Canada. Amid an onslaught of lawsuits and having suffered strikingly large jury awards linking talc-based baby powder to mesothelioma, Johnson & Johnson will n...

• J&J Loses in $9 Million Talc Asbestos Jury Verdict
  82-year-old Blanca Mure-Cabrera had used Johnson’s Baby Powder for most of her life. And, based on a Florida jury’s decision, doing so was a direct contributor to her development of mesothelioma – a cancer of the lungs that is directly attributed to asbestos exposure. Had the healthcare goods ...

• J&J Settles Talc Asbestos Mesothelioma Case for $2 Million
  “In litigation of every nature, there are one-off situations where settlement is a reasonable alternative.” This was the cover Johnson & Johnson spokeswoman Kim Montagnino chose to hide behind after the corporation settled the talc-based asbestos case of California plaintiff Linda O’Hagan ...

• Report: FDA Knew Talc Asbestos Was Problematic for Decades, Did Nothing Due to Industry Pressure
  While Johnson & Johnson was issuing denial after denial over the presence of mesothelioma-causing asbestos in its talc-based products, it was also attending meetings with federal regulators to discuss the presence of asbestos in its talc-based products. As recently as the latter months of 2018, ...

• Expert Paid by Johnson & Johnson Finds Asbestos in J&J Baby Powder
  Johnson & Johnson has made it perfectly clear that it has no intention of publicly acknowledging the possibility that its Baby Powder product may contain asbestos. In what may be one of the best demonstrations of “deny, deny, deny” ever seen, the J&J refrain can almost be recited from me...