The gigantic baby health care company Johnson & Johnson will be facing more than 1000 lawsuits following their ovarian cancer case. Johnson & Johnson was asked to pay $55 million to South Dakota native after losing their case.
Johnson & Johnson lost another trial for the second time this year. The first case of ovarian cancer trial mentioned by Parent Herald involved a 62-year-old, Jackie Fox. Johnson & Johnson was tasked to pay her family $72 million as she died due to ovarian cancer which is said to be caused by Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder.
As for their second case, Johnson & Johnson was tasked to pay $55 million for losing yet another lawsuit with the same complaint in South Dakota. The Johnson & Johnson company is swamped with another 1,000 lawsuits related to their talcum powder which his commonly linked to ovarian cancer.
"The more talc verdicts that come down against them adds to the public's growing distrust of their baby powder, which is one of their iconic products," Carl Tobias said, who teaches product-liability law at the University of Richmond in Virginia tells Bloomberg. "There are both economic and reputational issues that may motivate them to start thinking about a global settlement of these cases."
Despite the fact that Johnson & Johnson highly related to ovarian cancer, the company still denies that their talcum powders can be linked to ovarian cancer. In an emailed statement, Carol Goodrich, their spokeswoman stated that the company has been very caution in terms of product safety.
"Unfortunately, the jury's decision goes against 30 years of studies by medical experts around the word that continue to support the safety of cosmetic talc,'' Goodrich stated. "Johnson & Johnson has always taken questions about the safety of our products extremely seriously.''
After the second trial in South Dakota trial, the third Johnson & Johnson trial involves Gloria Ristesund from St. Louis. She was awarded $5 million for compensation and $50 million in punitive damages. She was diagnosed with cancer in 2011 and it was due to her usage of Johnson & Johnson's feminine health care products which contains talc.
"Science has been simple and consistent over the last 40 years: There's an increased risk of ovarian cancer from genital use of talc,'' Allen Smith, Ristesund's lawyer, stated last Friday.
