Claim: Jury clears J&J of liability in California talc cancer case.
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title: Johnson & Johnson
text: cancer after using the company's talc-based products like Johnson's Baby Powder for feminine hygiene. The verdict included $70 million in compensatory damages and $347 million in punitive damages. J&J said they will appeal the verdict. In October 2017, the Missouri Eastern District appeals court on Tuesday threw out a $72 million jury verdict. The appeals court ruled 3-0 that Jacqueline Fox's lawsuit lacked jurisdiction in Missouri because of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that imposed limits on where injury lawsuit can be filed which lawsuit's jurisdiction requires a stronger connection between the forum state and a plaintiff's claims. Fox, 62,

title: Johnson's Baby
text: 2016, J&J was ordered to pay $72 million in damages to the family of Jackie Fox, a 62-year-old woman who died of ovarian cancer in 2015. She had used Johnson's Baby Powder for many years. J&J claimed that the safety of cosmetic talc is supported by decades of scientific evidence and it plans to appeal the verdict. The British charity, Ovacome was quoted as saying that while there were 16 studies which showed that using talc increased the risk of ovarian cancer by around a third, and a 2013 review of US studies had similar results for genital, but not

title: Talc
text: verdict of Eva Echeverria against Johnson & Johnson and its talc-containing consumer products for causing cancer. The judge stated that Eva Echeverria proved there is "an ongoing debate in the scientific and medical community about whether talc more probably than not causes ovarian cancer and thus (gives) rise to a duty to warn", but not enough to sustain the jury's imposition of liability against Johnson & Johnson stated, and concluded that Echeverria did not adequately establish that talc causes ovarian cancer. In July 2018, a court in St. Louis awarded a $4.7bn claim ($4.14bn in punitive damages and $550m in

title: Talc
text: years before being diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2011. In October 2016, a St. Louis jury awarded $70.1 million to a Californian woman with ovarian cancer who had used Johnson's Baby Powder for 45 years. In August 2017, a Los Angeles jury awarded $417 million to a Californian woman, Eva Echeverria, who developed ovarian cancer as a "proximate result of the unreasonably dangerous and defective nature of talcum powder", her lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson stated. At least 1,200 to 2,000 other talcum powder-related lawsuits are pending. On 20 October 2017, Los Angeles Superior Court judge Maren Nelson, dismissed the

title: Talc
text: female genital area. Yet no federal agency in the US acted to remove talcum powder from the market or add warnings. In February 2016, as the result of a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson (J&J), a St. Louis jury awarded $72 million to the family of an Alabama woman who died from ovarian cancer. The family claimed that the use of talcum powder was responsible for her cancer. In May 2016, a South Dakota woman was awarded $55 million as the result of another lawsuit against J&J. The woman had used Johnson & Johnson's Baby Powder for more than 35

title: Levy Konigsberg
text: landmark talc case against a manufacturer for selling talc that was contaminated with asbestos. The firm secured a jury verdict for a man who developed mesothelioma from working in a factory that manufactured cosmetic talc products between 1967 and 1975. The firm has also litigated asbestos cases against manufacturers and suppliers of asbestos-containing automotive products. In 2008, the firm obtained a $30.3 million jury verdict in Bergen County, New Jersey in a case in which a man died from mesothelioma at the age of 50. The man was exposed to asbestos from working a few summers at a General Motors

title: Johnson & Johnson
text: of Birmingham, Ala., died in 2015, about four months before her trial was held in St. Louis Circuit Court. She was among 65 plaintiffs, of whom only two were from Missouri. Subsequently, it also would kill three other recent St. Louis jury verdicts of more than $200 million combined. In July 2018, a St. Louis jury awarded nearly US$4.7 billion in damages to 22 women and their families after they claimed asbestos in Johnson & Johnson talcum powder caused their ovarian cancer. In August 2018, Johnson & Johnson said that it removed several chemicals from baby powder products and re-engineered

title: M. Gerald Schwartzbach
text: 1999 jury verdict of almost $300 million in the personal injury/products liability case of "Romo v. Ford Motor Co." The case involved a family whose parents and brother died after its 1978 Ford Bronco rolled over and the roof gave way. Schwartzbach was chief trial counsel for attorney Stephen Bingham, who was acquitted of conspiracy and multiple murder charges in a Marin County Superior Court trial in 1986. The case arose out of an alleged attempted escape from San Quentin Prison by Black Panther Party member George Jackson (Black Panther), an incident that resulted in the death of Jackson, two

title: Johnson & Johnson
text: still went ahead and made the product available. In February 2016, J&J was ordered to pay $72 million in damages to the family of Jacqueline Fox, a 62-year-old woman who died of ovarian cancer in 2015: the company said it would appeal. By March 2017, over 1,000 U.S. women had sued J&J for covering up the possible cancer risk from its Baby Powder product; the company says that 70 percent of its Baby Powder is used by adults. In August 2017, a California jury ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $417 million to a woman who claimed she developed ovarian

title: Kiesel Boucher Larson
text: 2007. The importance of the settlement also paved way for the release of thousands of pages of sealed historical records, which the Catholic Church had been suppressing since the crimes against all of the molested victims took place. Kiesel Law LLP represents those who were implanted with Wright Medical Hips which were found by a federal jury to be defectively designed. Kiesel Law LLP represents those who were harmed by Talc use. Kiesel Boucher Larson Kiesel Law LLP is a consumer litigation firm. In 2015, Kiesel Law LLP was selected as one of the 100 top law firms in California.

title: David Jagolinzer
text: liability, toxic mass tort, and catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death. In April 2008 he earned his client a $24.2 million jury verdict in Guilder v. Honeywell International, Inc., which at the time was the highest compensatory damage award against a single defendant in a Florida mesothelioma case in history. The case made "The National Law Journal's" Top 100 Verdicts for that year. However this verdict was reversed on appeal. Also in 2008, Jagolinzer was a key figure in convincing the court to declare the 2005 Florida Asbestos Statute as unconstitutional, in William v. American Optical Corporation. The now defunct

title: Stephen John Estey
text: longtime schoolmate Mike Bomberger. The firm specializes in representing plaintiff's cases involving product liability, wrongful death, car accidents, premises liability and other serious injuries. Estey's practice has seen him successfully litigate against many large corporations and civil districts including the Corona-Norco Unified School District, Los Angeles County, Orange County, Kaiser Permanente, UPS, Medtronic, City of San Diego, State of California, Regents of the University of California, Ford Motor Company and McDonald's. He is most notable for his 2010 verdict where he secured a $30,000,000 verdict in the case of John Doe vs. Giarretto, the largest sexual abuse verdict ever awarded

title: Robert Courtney
text: with murder, but federal prosecutors believed a murder charge would be hard to prove since many patients were suffering from late-stage cancer. Courtney also was named as defendant in approximately 300 suits for fraud and wrongful death. In one case a jury awarded the plaintiff, Georgia Hayes, a judgment in the amount of $2.2 billion. Although Hayes knew she would likely never see that money because his assets had been frozen, she wanted to send a message that this type of deceit was not worth the cost. Eli Lilly and Bristol Myers-Squibb were named in several of the civil suits.

title: W. Mark Lanier
text: 22 women who had filed suit against Johnson & Johnson. The lawsuit alleged that the company's talcum powder products contained asbestos and caused the women's ovarian cancer. The trial lasted six weeks, and resulted in $550 million in compensatory damages and $4.14 billion in punitive damages being awarded to the plaintiffs. Some of Lanier's trials have been carried on the Court-TV website and have been the subject of various articles and books. Lanier was the principle subject of "All the Justice Money Can Buy", by ex-NPR reporter Snigdha Prakash. Prakash was embedded in the Lanier trial team for the Vioxx

title: The Runaway Jury
text: and the verdict belongs to him." Wendall Rohr and a legal team of successful tort lawyers have filed suit on behalf of plaintiff Celeste Wood, whose husband died of lung cancer. The trial is to be held in Biloxi, Mississippi, a state thought to have favorable tort laws and sympathetic juries. The defendant is Pynex, a tobacco company. Even before the jury has been sworn in, a stealth juror, Nicholas Easter, has begun to quietly connive behind the scenes, in concert with a mysterious woman known only as Marlee. Rankin Fitch, a shady "consultant" who has directed eight successful trials

title: The Cochran Firm
text: wrongful conduct of others. The firm handles products liability, medical malpractice, mass torts, pharmaceutical litigation, and premises liability. The Cochran Firm has received verdicts and settlements totaling over $45 billion. The partners of the firm have won 11 verdicts in excess of $100 million, more than 35 over $10 million and hundreds of verdicts or settlements in excess of $1 million. In 2004 one of the founding partners, Jock Smith, helped his client retain a verdict of $1.6 billion, the largest jury verdict in 2004. In 2008 an attorney in the California office, Brian T. Dunn, achieved a landmark decision

title: Michael A. Ramos
text: Colonies Partners LP. A jury acquitted three of the defendants, Jeff Burum, Paul Biane and Mark Kirk, and charges against the fourth defendant, Jim Erwin, were dropped after a separate jury deadlocked. Several jurors said they believed key prosecution witnesses had lied and questioned why the case was ever brought in the first place. By early 2018, all of the defendants had filed separate claims against the county and the state of California, citing malicious prosecution and seeking in total more than $100 million for damages. In 2009, Ramos created the county's Coalition Against Sexual Exploitation (C.A.S.E.). C.A.S.E. brought together

title: Market share liability
text: must not be the plaintiff's fault. This is particularly relevant in the pharmaceuticals context, as most plaintiffs are prescribed generic drugs and thus have no knowledge of who manufactured the product. Jurisdictions and courts differ on the possibilities open to defendants to absolve themselves of market share liability. In "Sindell" (California), the court allowed defendants to bring forth exculpatory evidence and thus free themselves of liability. However, in "Hymowitz v. Eli Lilly & Co." (New York), the court refused to allow exculpatory evidence because it felt that doing so would undermine the theory underpinning market share liability—because liability is based

title: Summers v. Tice
text: of the defendants had caused either or both of plaintiff’s injuries be shifted to the defendants, so that either could absolve himself of liability if possible. This is because it would have been impossible for the plaintiff to show which of the two negligent actors had caused his harm. "Summers v. Tice" has had enormous precedential impact within the state of California and persuasive authority in other jurisdictions in the area of product liability. Summers v. Tice Summers v. Tice, 33 Cal.2d 80, 199 P.2d 1 (1948), is a seminal California Supreme Court tort law decision relating to the issue

title: Deloitte & Touche v Livent Inc (Receiver of)
text: turpi causa" and proximate liability, while Livent's cross-appeal submitted that the trial judge erred in failing to hold Deloitte liable for negligence in respect of the 1996 audit and also in reducing the award of damages by 25 per cent. The appeal and cross-appeal were both dismissed. In a 3-0 ruling, Blair JA held that: In a 4-3 ruling, the appeal was allowed in part, and Livent was awarded for costs throughout. For the majority, Gascon and Brown JJ held that the framework established in "Anns v Merton LBC" and "Cooper v Hobart" served to identify whether a duty of