Consumer health products giant cited declining consumer demand prompted by litigation over cancer risk
Johnson & Johnson announced Tuesday that it would stop selling the talc-based Johnson’s Baby Powder in the United States amid consumer concerns about the safety of the product. The company said that consumer demand for the product had declined “due in…
On Wednesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration requested that companies pull all prescription and over-the-counter forms of the heartburn drug Zantac (ranitidine) from store shelves. The agency has warned that an impurity in the drugs has been linked to an increased risk of cancer, which has become the subject of litigation against manufacturers of…
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A Missouri jury awarded U.S. peach grower Bader Farms $265 million dollars in early February 2020 in a suit he brought against Bayer and BASF. Bill Bader, the owner of Bader Farms, said that his crops were damaged when the companies’ dicamba-based herbicide drifted on to his peach trees from nearby farms.
The trial is…
A suit filed on October 29 claims that e-cigarette manufacturer JUUL Labs sent over one million mint-flavored nicotine pods to market, Buzzfeed News reports. Siddharth Breja, a former executive at the San Francisco company, alleges that JUUL knew that it had sent contaminated pods to market but failed to alert consumers or issue a…
A California jury has awarded a couple more than $2 billion after determining that use of Roundup weed killer caused their cancer. Bayer’s Monsanto, the manufacturer of Roundup, has now lost three verdicts in cases that say that the company failed to warn consumers about the dangers of Roundup.
The couple, Alva and Alberta Pilliod,…
In a surprising move Wednesday, pharmaceutical and consumer products giant Johnson & Johnson settled three lawsuits accusing the company of manufacturing talc products with cancer-causing ingredients. A jury in a case in Oklahoma was three hours into deliberation when the judge called them back and announced that the two sides had reached a deal. On…
On Wednesday, a California jury awarded a man $80 million after he successfully argued that his use of Bayer’s Roundup weedkiller caused his cancer. The San Fransisco jury found that it was more likely than not that Edwin Hardeman’s use of the Bayer product caused his non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, awarding roughly $5 million in compensatory damages…
On Tuesday, a San Francisco jury found that use of Roundup weedkiller was a “substantial factor” in causing a man’s cancer. The jury found unanimously that use of the Bayer (formerly Monsanto) product had contributed to causing Edwin Hardeman’s non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The trial will now proceed to determine whether Bayer should be held liable…
A California jury has awarded a woman $29 million on her claim that asbestos in Johnson & Johnson’s talc products caused her cancer. This case is the latest in a string of defeats for the consumer and pharmaceutical product company, which faces thousands of similar lawsuits in courts across the country.
Teresa Leavitt, the…
