Topic: Talc
Late last month Johnson & Johnson announced a voluntary recall of approximately 33,000 bottles of its baby powder after the FDA reported finding chrysotile asbestos in the product. While J&J maintains that “thousands of tests over the past 40 years repeatedly confirm that our consumer talc products do not contain asbestos”, it appears that the […]
Johnson & Johnson has been hit with a substantial verdict in the latest talc trial in New Jersey. Jurors awarded $37.3 million in compensatory damages to four plaintiffs, Douglas Barden, David Etheridge, D’Angela McNeill-George and Will Ronning, for their talc-related mesothelioma injuries. Punitive damages are still to be determined. The plaintiffs were represented by Moshe […]
A state court jury in California found Johnson and Johnson (J&J) and Colgate-Palmolive Co. liable for a California woman’s mesothelioma as a result of her exposure to asbestos in both J&J’s and Colgate-Palmolive’s Cashmere Bouquet talcum powder products. Plaintiff Patricia Schmitz, a 61-year old retired teacher, was awarded $12 million by the Alameda County jury […]
