7th Circuit Reverses, Finds Supplier May Be Liable for Asbestos in Packaging June 22, 2023 By Jim Sams Bruce Johnson, a ceramics artist and teacher, routinely dug through shipping packages stuffed to the brim with vermiculite in order...
J&J Puts Talc Liabilities Into Bankruptcy October 15, 2021 By Mike Spector and Dan Levine Oct 14 – Johnson & Johnson on Thursday put into bankruptcy tens of thousands of legal claims alleging its Baby...
J&J Gets Banker’s $117 Million Talc Verdict Tossed on Appeal April 29, 2021 By Jef Feeley Johnson & Johnson persuaded an appeals court to throw out a $117 million award to a banker who alleged the...
J&J to Pay $37.2 Million to Group Blaming Powder for Cancers September 12, 2019 By Jef Feeley Johnson & Johnson must pay at least $37.2 million to four consumers who blamed asbestos-tainted talc for their cancers in...
J&J, Colgate Ordered to Pay Almost $10 Million in Talc Case June 13, 2019 Johnson & Johnson and Colgate-Palmolive Co. must pay almost $10 million to a dying California woman who blamed the companies’...
J&J’s Talc Defense Gets Harder After Cases Kept in State Courts May 10, 2019 By Jef Feeley and Margaret Cronin Fisk Johnson & Johnson failed to get 2,400 state-court cancer lawsuits tied to its baby powder immediately transferred to a federal...
Sudden Talc-Cancer Settlements Aren’t J&J’s Usual Style March 28, 2019 Johnson & Johnson took the unusual step of settling two women’s claims that its talc-based products caused their asbestos-linked cancers...
Mass. High Court Applies 6-Year Limit to Asbestos Illness Claims March 7, 2019 By Elizabeth Blosfield The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that a statute of repose barring many construction-related personal injury claims after a...
Libby Asbestos Fight Continues Two Decades Later January 22, 2019 By TRISTAN SCOTT, Flathead Beacon The bleak world of asbestos science is tinged with subtle hues of gray and white, barely perceptible shadows that don’t...
Arizona High Court Says Employers Not Liable for Kids’ Asbestos-Related Illness May 14, 2018 Employers can’t be held liable to somebody who contracted cancer from asbestos brought home on a parent’s work clothes, according...