Lawsuit alleging that Johnson & Johnson's talcum power caused cancer used faulty expert testimony, appeals court rules.
A New Jersey court has has thrown out a nearly $224 million verdict against Johnson & Johnson that was awarded to four people who alleged in a lawsuit that they got cancer from using the company's talcum-powder products.
The company appealed that decision the following year, arguing that three experts selected to testify during the trial — William Longo, Jacqueline Moline and James Webber — presented flawed or incomplete information. Moline is an occupational medicine doctor at North Shore University Hospital in Long Island, New York. Longo is a materials scientist in Georgia, CEO of Micro Analytical Laboratories and a former member of the National Asbestos Council.
The appeals court agreed with the company's argument that the lower court should not have allowed the three experts' testimony. In 2020, the company recalled 33,000 bottles of baby powder after the Food and Drum Administration found a small amount of asbestos in a bottle purchased online. Later that year, J&J said that Erik Haas, J&J's worldwide vice president of litigation, said in a statement to CBS MoneyWatch that the appellate court's decision"resoundingly rejects, again, the junk science advanced by purported experts paid by the mass tort asbestos bar.
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