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- Did Johnson & Johnson Target Black Women with Asbestos-Contaminated Talc?
The legal battle over the presence of asbestos in Johnson & Johnson talc products took an insidious turn last month as a Black women’s group accused the world’s largest healthcare goods manufacturer of deliberately targeting Black communities with asbestos-laden talc products. The National C...
- Latest Talc-Asbestos Case Adds $300 Million to J&J’s Losses
The losses continue to pile up for the world’s largest healthcare goods manufacturer and a company that has staked its image and reputation on trustworthiness, wholesomeness, and products you can feel good about bringing home to your family. A New York jury, however, has peeled away yet another la...
- 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...
- Talc Ovarian Cancer Claims Lead to Asbestos Settlement
22 women suing Johnson & Johnson talc supplier Imerys over claims that its talc caused their ovarian cancer have settled an asbestos claim with the company before trial. The terms of the settlement are confidential, but the amount is known to be at least $5 million.
While some may be quick to se...
- $2 Billion Johnson & Johnson Talc Cancer Verdict Stands
The fight over a $2 billion talc asbestos cancer verdict that has raged since 2018 has finally come to an end as the United States Supreme Court upheld a Missouri Supreme Court decision. The lawsuit was originally brought by 22 women who alleged that asbestos present in Johnson & Johnson’s tal...
- 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...
- 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...
- J&J Baby Powder Pulled from Store Shelves Over Asbestos Contamination
After months of vehement denials over the presence of asbestos in the talc used in Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder, certain bottles of the product have been removed from store shelves over concerns of contamination with…asbestos. The move is the latest development in a saga that has torched ...
