CMBG3 Law previously reported on a verdict against Johnson & Johnson out of California in the amount of $417 million, which was the first California case tried to verdict against Johnson & Johnson in which it was alleged that the company’s talcum powder...
CMBG3 Law reported yesterday on the start of the first asbestos-contaminated talcum powder trial in California. Later in the day, the Judge declared a mistrial and so a new jury will be picked and the trial will resume at a date to be determined. The reason for the...
CMBG3 Law has reported throughout the year on events in the pending talcum powder litigation, in which plaintiffs allege that talcum powder caused their ovarian or uterine cancer. Although the ovarian and uterine cancer cases have dominated the news, most recently in...
On September 25, 2017, two prominent plaintiffs' experts (Sean Fitzgerald, Geologist and Dr. Ronald Gordon, MD) were excluded from testifying in the asbestos case of Sally Brandt and Charles Brandt v. The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc., et al., Court of common Pleas of...
In June of 2017, the United States Supreme Court issued two rulings, both of which addressed whether plaintiffs can bring lawsuits in states in which the plaintiffs and defendants have little or no connection. The Supreme Court’s rulings made it clear that in cases...
New Jersey was one of the first states to establish a multidistrict litigation (MDL) docket for thousands of pending ovarian and uterine cancer claims against Johnson & Johnson for the company’s talcum powder products. Last week, a number of plaintiffs on the New...
Johnson & Johnson’s motion to delay trial in hundreds of talc-based ovarian cancer cases pending in the 22nd Circuit Court of Missouri was recently denied by appellate Judge Angela T. Quigless. Johnson & Johnson, manufacturer and marketer of numerous...
The Los Angeles County Superior Court scheduled its first trial for July 3, 2017 in a case involving a woman who claims that she developed ovarian cancer from the use of Johnson & Johnson’s talc-containing Baby Powder and Shower-to-Shower products. The...
In September of 2016, a New Jersey Superior Court judge dismissed the lawsuits of two women who claimed that their use of Johnson & Johnson talcum powder products caused their ovarian cancer. The judge dismissed the lawsuits based on his rejection of plaintiffs’...
On March 3, 2017, a St. Louis, Missouri jury returned a verdict in favor of defendants Johnson & Johnson and Imerys Talc in a lawsuit filed by Nora Daniels, in which she claimed that talc in the Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder product caused her ovarian cancer....