More than a year after a Missouri jury ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $72 million to the family of a woman who died from ovarian cancer linked to the company’s talcum-based products, another jury in the state awarded a Virginia woman a record-setting $110.5 million in a similar lawsuit.
Thursday’s jury ruling is the fourth in a string of cases involving allegations that Johnson & Johnson ignored a possible link between cancer and its talcum-based products.
The most recent case, the Associated Press reports, involves 62-year-old Lois Slemp, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2012.
According to the lawsuit, the woman claims her illness was caused by more than 40 years of using Johnson & Johnson’s talcum powder products, including baby powder. She alleges that Johnson & Johnson concealed the possibility that its baby powder and other talcum-based products could cause cancer.
The woman’s lawyers cited much of the same research used in previous cases. The studies showed that woman who used the products had a greater risk of being diagnosed with cancer.
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5 comments:
It's all about the money and blood sucking lawyers. Tort reform !
I'm sorry the lady got ovarian cancer, but millions of people have used baby powder with talc since birth and not had cancer. I think if there was a clear link that moms all over the world would stop using it on their baby's butts.
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You don't win suits like this unless there is proof of the allegations.
Several people certainly wouldn't win several suits like this unless there is proof.
Do you work for Johnson and Johnsons?
Why would a regular person defend a huge corporation like J&J against proof of damages?
Is there something wrong with you?
Or, are you a paid shill?
I dust my junk, and have fir years. No testicular cancer. And how is 75m going to make it better for her? These lawsuits cost all of us more.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I dust my junk, and have fir years. No testicular cancer. And how is 75m going to make it better for her? These lawsuits cost all of us more.
May 6, 2017 at 10:27 PM
Good for you. Money will not make it better for her except to pay her medical bills and provide for her family when she has died from cancer that the powder caused.
Corps who cause such damage are punished in a way they can feel it, in their wallets. Although people do get money from lawsuits/settlements the real point is to correct a situation and not allow it to happen to others. It may seem to some like people 'hit the lottery' but there is deeper meanings behind such actions.
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