Pharmaceutical Company Pushes To Reverse Talcum Baby Powder Lawsuit

April 11, 2017 – – Johnson & Johnson has been making headlines recently due to a slew of lawsuits that have been filed against the company. The pharmaceutical giant has incurred thousands of lawsuits based on claims that two of their products, targeted toward women’s hygiene, are causing ovarian cancer. Having lost the first three of those cases, the pharmaceutical company is looking to have cases dismissed, saying that the lawyers for the plaintiffs tainted the jury pool in St. Louis, Missouri, where the trials were taking place.

A representative for TalcumPowder.org recently commented on the trials saying, “The jury awarded the plaintiffs a combination of more than $195 million in those first three trials alone and this is far from the end of the claims that are headed to court.”

Johnson & Johnson claims that the settlements will in no way affect their bottom line. However, a fifth trial is soon to be underway and the company is facing more than 3,000 similar claims, many of which would be heard in the same St. Louis court with the same judge presiding.

“Of course they are searching for a way to undermine the results,” says the talcumpowder.org representative. “With only three trials totally nearly $200 million, you can only imagine what they will be looking at if all of those claims go to court and are awarded to the plaintiffs.”

Plaintiffs in each of the filed cases claim that there are studies dating back to the 1970’s which show a direct link between talc powder and ovarian cancer. The plaintiffs in these cases claim that they used popular Johnson & Johnson products, Baby Powder and Shower-to-Shower for years as feminine hygiene products. Studies show that using talc on the genital area can directly increase a woman’s risk of developing ovarian cancer.

While the defending pharmaceutical company is not claiming that those studies do not exist, they are stating that cases should be dismissed because attorneys for the plaintiffs in those cases tainted the jury pool by spending nearly $10 million on local and national TV advertisements that caused jurors to immediately side with the plaintiffs. The company also states that many of those jurors are not from the St. Louis area and that because the company itself is based in New Jersey, there are no ties strong enough to have had those cases heard in Missouri.

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