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J&J Cites ‘Progress’ Settling Baby Powder Cancer Cases

Johnson & Johnson said it’s moving forward to resolve lawsuits that claim its talc-based Baby Powder causes cancer to avoid facing some jury trials next year and further its strategy of finding a global settlement for thousands of cases. “We …

Asbestos Wrongful Death Claim Allowed Against Employer as Workers’ Comp Exception

A Connecticut appeals court has revived a wrongful death claim that tests a narrow exception to the state law that makes workers’ compensation the exclusive remedy for most workplace deaths and injuries. Harold Dusto’s estate blames his death on mesothelioma …

Doctor Asks Court to Toss J&J Lawsuit Against her over Cancer Research

NEW YORK –– A medical researcher has asked a court to throw out a lawsuit that Johnson & Johnson filed against her over her 2019 study on the links between cosmetic talc products and cancer, saying that her research is …

Workplace Safety Officials Slap Albuquerque, Contractor with $1.1 Million Fine

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — State regulators have identified willful workplace safety violations that exposed employees at an overnight shelter for women to hazardous asbestos during construction work over a nearly one-year period, the New Mexico Environment Department announced Friday. The …

Montana Clinic Files for Bankruptcy Following $6 Million Judgment over False Asbestos Claims

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A health clinic in a Montana town plagued by deadly asbestos contamination has filed for bankruptcy protection after a judge ordered it to pay the government almost $6 million in penalties and damages for submitting false …

Jurors Urged to Impose Heavy Punitive Damages in J&J Talc Trial

Lawyers for a California man who says he developed a rare cancer from exposure to asbestos in Johnson & Johnson’s JNJ.N talc-based baby powder on Monday urged a jury to order the company to pay heavy punitive damages, calling its …

7th Circuit Reverses, Finds Supplier May Be Liable for Asbestos in Packaging

Bruce Johnson, a ceramics artist and teacher, routinely dug through shipping packages stuffed to the brim with vermiculite in order to pull out the pyrometric cones that he used for his work with hot kilns. That packaging material was the …

Lawmakers Warn Leaky, Crumbling UK Parliament at Risk of ‘Catastrophic’ Event

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Parliament building is an architectural masterpiece, a UNESCO World Heritage Site visited by 1 million people a year. It’s also a crumbling, leaky, asbestos-riddled structure at “real and rising” risk of destruction, lawmakers said Wednesday. In …

J&J Talc Unit 2nd Bankruptcy Must Be Dismissed, Lawyers Say

Johnson & Johnson’s second attempt to resolve talc lawsuits in bankruptcy should be dismissed as an unprecedented fraud designed to deny plaintiffs just compensation, lawyers representing cancer victims argued in a Monday court filing. The attorneys contend J&J defied a …

Judge Indicates Intention to Dismiss J&J Talc Unit Bankruptcy

The bankruptcy case filed by Johnson & Johnson’s subsidiary shouldering talc-related lawsuits will soon be dismissed unless a U.S appeals court agrees to reconsider its decision to nix the company’s attempt to offload the litigation into Chapter 11 proceedings, a …