Yesterday, in the first California trial over Johnson & Johnson’s talc powder, a Los Angeles jury awarded $417 million (including $347 million in punitive damages meant to punish the company) to a 62 year old woman, Eva Echeverria who developed ovarian cancer after using its talc-based products for feminine hygiene. (Echeverria v. Johnson & Johnson,...
Despite Johnson & Johnson’s attempt to delay the next talcum powder trial, the trial of Nora Daniels, 56, a resident of Columbia, Tennessee will proceed on February 6, 2017. Ms. Daniels alleges that years of using Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder caused her ovarian cancer. Specially, the lawsuit, along with numerous others filed across the...
For the second time in only a few months, a jury in St. Louis awarded $55 million in damages to Gloria Ristesund, a woman who used Johnson & Johnson’s talcum powder for feminine hygiene more than 35 years before being diagnosed with ovarian cancer. On Monday, the jury agreed that Johnson and Johnson knew of...
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