On Friday, October 18, 2019, Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. announced that it is recalling approximately 33,000 bottles of baby powder in the United States after U.S. health regulators found trace amounts of asbestos in samples taken from a bottle purchased online. Asbestos is a known carcinogen that has been linked to mesothelioma. Johnson &...
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...
On October 4, 2016, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) issued an order transferring federal cases alleging that women developed ovarian or uterine cancer following use of Johnson & Johnson’s talcum powder products (namely Johnson’s Baby Powder and Shower to Shower body powder) to U.S. District Judge Freda L. Wolfson in the District of New Jersey for...
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