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A plaintiffs' lawyer who represents 11,434 of approximately J&J's roughly 100,000 talc claimants said the company's figure is inflated, and its latest bankruptcy petition is "fraught with problems."
J&J denies the allegations and has said that its products are safe. After being rebuffed twice by federal courts, New Brunswick New Jersey-based J&J is attempting again to end the litigation in a ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Johnson & Johnson has cleared a key threshold of support for its proposed $6.5-billion settlement of tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging its baby powder and other talc ...
At least 1,200 to 2,000 other talcum powder-related lawsuits were pending as of 2016. [51] [56] In 2020 J&J stopped sales of its talcum-based baby powder, which it had been selling for 130 years. J&J created a subsidiary responsible for the claims in an effort to resolve the lawsuits in bankruptcy court.
In February 2016, J&J was ordered to pay $72 million in damages to the family of Jackie Fox, a 62-year-old woman who died of ovarian cancer in 2015. She had used Johnson's Baby Powder for many years. J&J claimed that the safety of cosmetic talc is supported by decades of scientific evidence and it plans to appeal the verdict.
One of the most troubling examples for J&J was a situation in which a Missouri court awarded $2.1 billion to 22 women who said they contracted ovarian cancer from using the company's talc products.
The New Jersey Supreme Court has been at the forefront in providing access to malls as a public forum under the New Jersey State Constitution's free-speech protections, requiring private owners of shopping malls to allow use as a forum by individuals and groups. In New Jersey Coalition Against War in the Middle East v. JMB Realty Corp.
In 2020, J&J announced that it would stop selling its talc Baby Powder in the United States and Canada because demand had fallen in the wake of what it called "misinformation" about the product's ...