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Eugene

(61,900 posts) Thu Mar 14, 2019, 03:49 AM Mar 2019

Woman awarded $29m in damages in Johnson & Johnson cancer case

Source: Reuters

A California jury has awarded $29m to a woman who said asbestos in Johnson & Johnson’s talcum-powder-based products caused her cancer.

Wednesday’s verdict, in California superior court in Oakland, marks the latest defeat for the healthcare conglomerate facing more than 13,000 talc-related lawsuits nationwide.

The company said it would appeal, citing “serious procedural and evidentiary errors” during the trial, saying lawyers for the woman had fundamentally failed to show its baby powder contains asbestos. The company did not provide further details of the alleged errors.

“We respect the legal process and reiterate that jury verdicts are not medical, scientific or regulatory conclusions about a product,” Johnson & Johnson said in a statement.

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Reuters
Thu 14 Mar 2019 05.42 GMT

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/14/woman-awarded-29m-in-damages-in-johnson-johnson-cancer-case

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Woman awarded $29m in damages in Johnson & Johnson cancer case (Original Post) Eugene Mar 2019 OP

Wow. Her lawyers obviously showed the jury enough to get a verdict. SunSeeker Mar 2019 #1

Kavanaugh's father was chief lawyer,major exec & lobbyist for J&J during the coverup years. stuffmatters Mar 2019 #2

Did not know that. Wow! Baitball Blogger Mar 2019 #4

Yes, male entitled violence against women for fun/profit Kavanaugh so learned from "Calendar" Dad stuffmatters Mar 2019 #5

Good Sherman A1 Mar 2019 #3

SunSeeker

(51,572 posts)

1. Wow. Her lawyers obviously showed the jury enough to get a verdict.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu Mar 14, 2019, 04:06 AM

Mar 2019

And there's 13,000 more women like her out there. J & J must be hoping to take this to SCOTUS so Kavanaugh, et al. can rescue them.

stuffmatters

(2,574 posts)

2. Kavanaugh's father was chief lawyer,major exec & lobbyist for J&J during the coverup years.

Reply to SunSeeker (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 14, 2019, 05:32 AM

Mar 2019

One of those families where the apple fell right under the tree.

Kavanaugh knew this case, in which his father is so heavily implicated, would reach SCOTUS someday; it was already in the pipeline.
And you get bet the farm that Kavanaugh will do everything possible to fight demands that he recuse himself bkz his father is so deeply involved.

Baitball Blogger

(46,736 posts)

4. Did not know that. Wow!

Reply to stuffmatters (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 14, 2019, 08:54 AM

Mar 2019

stuffmatters

(2,574 posts)

5. Yes, male entitled violence against women for fun/profit Kavanaugh so learned from "Calendar" Dad

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Reply #4)

Thu Mar 14, 2019, 05:43 PM

Mar 2019

This "small world dept." is a particularly shocking example of not just father to son criminal misogyny but also of near unimaginable, entrenched male privilege in our society and govt via the GOP.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)

3. Good

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu Mar 14, 2019, 06:25 AM

Mar 2019

Hope that they lose miserably on appeal.

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