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 &...
On July 12, 2018, a St. Louis jury awarded $4.69 billion to 22 women finding that Johnson & Johnson knew or should have known that perineal use of its talcum powder products can cause ovarian cancer in women, but failed to provide adequate instructions and warnings. The verdict included $550 million in compensatory damages and...
On Thursday, Johnson & Johnson was ordered by a Missouri jury to pay over $110 million to a Virginia woman, Lois Slemp, who says she developed ovarian cancer after decades of using of its talc-based products for feminine hygiene. Specially, the lawsuit, (along with numerous others filed across the country), alleges that Johnson & Johnson...
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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