On April 28, a New Jersey appeals court overturned $117 million in compensatory and punitive damages awarded to plaintiffs Stephen Lanzo and his wife, Kendra, and ordered new trials be held in the talc contamination lawsuit against defendants Johnson & Johnson and...
In the first civil jury trial in Los Angeles County since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, the jury awarded a $4.8 million verdict to a 73-year old Vietnam War veteran against talc supplier Whittaker Clark & Daniels (WCD). WCD was for decades one...
At a hearing before a New Jersey state appeals court on March 9, attorneys for Johnson & Johnson and Imerys Talc America sought to throw out verdicts totaling $117 million awarded in a case brought by Stephen Lanzo and his wife, Kendra; the plaintiffs alleged that...
In an SEC filing on February 23, Johnson & Johnson set aside $3.9 billion in litigation expenses it says are “primarily associated with talc-related reserves and certain settlements”. The amount takes into account the record July 2018 $4.69B verdict awarded by a...
On January 25th, Johnson & Johnson won a dismissal on the proposal of a class action lawsuit regarding the safety of talc in their products. The 2019 lawsuit initiated by plaintiffs stated that J&J misled consumers by falsely advertising the safety of using...
On November 3, Missouri’s Supreme Court refused to review a jury verdict for $2.1B that was delivered to 22 women who claimed that J&J’s talc-containing baby powder caused their ovarian cancer. That verdict was the result of a June 2018 trial where the jury found...
Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $100 Million to terminate over 1,000 lawsuits alleging their baby powder contained asbestos which caused cancer in many of the users of the product. The settlement includes lawsuits brought by three firms: Simmons Hanly...
On May 19, 2020, Johnson & Johnson announced it is discontinuing North American sales of its talc-based baby powder, a product it has defended for decades in the face of lawsuits filed by consumers who say it caused cancer. This move likely would not have happened...
Talc manufacturer Johnson and Johnson recently found itself in courtrooms in both New Jersey and Missouri battling in cases filed by plaintiffs who claim that the company’s talc products contained asbestos and caused their ovarian cancers. Missouri On April 24, the...
In February, after a massive punitive damages verdict, Johnson and Johnson filed a motion seeking a new trial on the issue of the award as well as motions asking for judgment notwithstanding the verdict and remittitur. In its filings, J&J claimed that the...
