Claim: Jury awards more than $70M to woman in baby powder lawsuit.
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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 & 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Johnson & Johnson
text: them to make consumers more confident that products were safer for children. In December 2018, with 11,700 people suing Johnson & Johnson over cancers allegedly caused by baby powder, the company was forced to release internal documents. The documents showed that the company had known about asbestos contamination since at least as early as 1971 and had spent decades finding ways to conceal the evidence from the public. On December 19, the company lost its request to reverse a jury verdict that ruled in favor of the accusers, which required the company to pay $4.14 billion in punitive damages and

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: Levy Konigsberg
text: a client who developed mesothelioma from exposure to asbestos contained in Johnson's Baby Powder. The award consisted of $37 million in compensatory damages and $80 million in punitive damages. In an article about the verdict published by Reuters, Mr. Maimon stated: "We are gratified that justice was achieved and that our clients will be fairly compensated." Levy Konigsberg is active in Qui Tam cases also known as Whistleblower of False Claims Act cases. In one case filed in 2009, the firm represented a whistleblower, Dr. Gabriel Feldman, who uncovered a large-scale Medicaid fraud. Founding partner Alan J. Konigsberg represented Feldman

title: Anna Ayala
text: had won a suit against fast-food restaurant chain El Pollo Loco in which she was awarded US$30,000 in damages for medical expenses after her daughter Genesis contracted salmonella poisoning from eating at one of their Las Vegas-area restaurants. In mid-April 2004, El Pollo Loco spokeswoman Julie Weeks disputed this, saying that the company reviewed her claim and paid her nothing. In 2013, Ayala made international headlines again after being sentenced to two years in prison for being an accessory to a felony, filing a false police report and being a felon in possession of a firearm. In October the previous

title: Anthony Maglica
text: County Superior Court seeking $200 million in damages. The lawsuit went to jury trial — a trial that was reported by Court TV to large and involved audiences — which awarded Claire $84 million in the Spring of 1994. That award was appealed to the California Courts of Appeal where, in 1998, the earlier judgment was reversed and remanded. The court stated that the award was incorrect because the damages should have been the value of her services, not the amount of the benefit of her services. After being remanded and requiring a new trial, Claire settled with Mag Instrument

title: Levy Konigsberg
text: The $70 million settlement is one of the largest awards in whistleblower cases that New York City has ever paid. Another practice area for Levy Konigsberg is representing children that have suffered lead poisoning, most often occurring from lead paint used in residences. In one case, a young boy suffered from lead poisoning in a rented, city-owned apartment in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York. Levy Konigsberg won the case, receiving a $3.85 million jury verdict. The New York Post reported that the damages for the lead-poisoned child were $850,000 for pain and suffering and $3 million for loss

title: Sybil Shainwald
text: first case that held drug manufacturers liable for the health problems of children whose mothers had taken the synthetic estrogen drug DES to prevent miscarriage. The case was appealed by Lilly in 1979. Bichler turned down Lilly's settlement offer of $100,000 when Shainwald told her "that if money was not essential, and if she could hold out for a jury verdict, it would be a victory for women everywhere." Bichler won the appeal in 1982 and was awarded $500,000 by the jury. Women's health reform became Shainwald's cause. Beginning in the late 1980s, Shainwald represented women whose silicone gel breast

title: Conjugated estrogens
text: from over $2 billion in 2002 to just over $1 billion in 2006. This drug has been the subject of litigation; more than 13,000 people have sued Wyeth between 2002 and 2009. Wyeth and Pharmacia & Upjohn prevailed in the vast majority of hormone therapy cases previously set for trial through a combination of rulings by judges, verdicts by juries, and dismissals by plaintiffs themselves. Of the company’s losses, two of the jury verdicts were reversed post-trial and others are being challenged on appeal. Wyeth also won five summary judgments on Prempro cases and had 15 cases voluntarily dismissed by

title: John Edwards
text: half of the jury's award, but the child's family appealed the case and received $4.25 million in a settlement. Winning this case established the North Carolina precedent of physician and hospital liability for failing to determine if the patient understood the risks of a particular procedure. After this trial, Edwards gained national attention as a plaintiff's lawyer. He filed at least twenty similar lawsuits in the years following and achieved verdicts and settlements of more than $60 million for his clients. Similar lawsuits followed across the country. When asked about an increase in Caesarean deliveries nationwide, perhaps to avoid similar

title: Conjugated estrogens
text: plaintiffs. The company won dismissals in another 3,000 cases. In 2006, Mary Daniel, in a trial in Philadelphia, was awarded $1.5 million in compensatory damages as well as undisclosed punitive damages. As of 2010, Wyeth had won the last four of five cases, most recently in Virginia, finding that they were not responsible for the breast cancer of plaintiff Georgia Torkie-Tork. Wyeth has been quoted as saying "many risk factors associated with breast cancer have been identified, but science cannot establish what role any particular risk factor or combination play in any individual woman's breast cancer." Wyeth's counsel in the

title: John Edwards
text: libel charge. In 1985, Edwards represented a five-year-old child born with cerebral palsy – a child whose mother's doctor did not choose to perform an immediate Caesarean delivery when a fetal monitor showed she was in distress. Edwards won a $6.5 million verdict for his client, but five weeks later, the presiding judge sustained the verdict, but overturned the award on grounds that it was "excessive" and that it appeared "to have been given under the influence of passion and prejudice," adding that in his opinion "the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict." He offered the plaintiffs $3.25 million,

title: Seong Sil Kim v. New York City Transit Authority
text: there. She lay on the tracks in the tunnel for at least 24 minutes before her encounter with the train. Kim had given birth two months before the event, and the city submitted evidence that she was suffering from postpartum depression. Kim initially won her lawsuit, and a sympathetic jury awarded her $14.1 million. However, the judge reduced the amount because the jury apportioned Kim with 30% responsibility for her own injury, leaving her with $9.9 million. Her lawyer, David Dean, of the law firm of Sullivan Papain Block McGrath & Cannavo, said, "How she got there was less important

title: Kristin Rossum
text: ordered Rossum to pay more than $100 million in punitive damages, while San Diego County was ordered to pay $1.5 million. The family had originally asked for $50 million in punitive damages, but jurors awarded double that amount after estimating Rossum could have made $60 million from selling the rights to her story. John Gomez, the lawyer for the de Villers family, acknowledged that the family may never see the money, but wanted to make sure Rossum does not profit from her crime. A judge later reduced the punitive damages award to $10 million, but allowed the $4.5 million compensatory

title: Levy Konigsberg
text: jury verdict in favor of the woman. The firm has also represented construction workers who helped construct some of the largest buildings and power plants in New York. This included a $7 million award in 2014 for a Long Island, New York man who participated in the construction of the Northport Power Station. In an unusual case involving a truck driver who developed mesothelioma, Levy Konigsberg won a $7.3 million jury verdict in New York City in 2014 against Union Carbide. The man was exposed to asbestos from Union Carbide's asbestos-containing material that he picked up in bags from the