A jury has awarded more than $110 million to a Virginia woman who claimed that decades of daily use of Johnson & Johnson’s (NYSE: JNJ) talcum powder products caused her ovarian cancer. The verdict is the latest blow against the health care conglomerate and its co-defendant Imerys Talc America, a multinational company that mines and processes talc for J&J.
Lawyers from Beasley Allen Law Firm are representing Laura Quarles, whose husband, Gregory Quarles, was killed Jan. 31 in the northbound lane of I-85 in Montgomery, Alabama, near the Chantilly exit.
A jury in Lowndes County Circuit Court found in favor of the family of Larry Albritton, who was killed Oct. 7, 2013, when he lost control of the log truck he was driving and crashed.
Beasley Allen lawyer Kendall Dunson has filed suit on behalf of the family of a young woman who was killed on the job. The 20-year-old worker was crushed while cleaning a robotics machine at a Cusseta, Ala., manufacturing plant. Defendants in the suit are Joon, LLC, d/b/a Ajin USA, and Joynus Staffing Corp.
Leigh O’Dell, Beasley Allen Principal, will serve as Co-Lead Counsel for multidistrict litigation (MDL) involving the Johnson & Johnson talc litigation consolidated in Trenton, N.J.
Greg Allen reached another settlement recently of a case involving another tragic Bad Boy Buggy incident. We have been warning about the dangers of these vehicles for a very long time. While Textron, the manufacturer, has made improvements in the design of these machines over the years, there still are serious safety problems.
A third St. Louis jury has found Johnson & Johnson liable for ovarian cancer linked to talcum powder in its Johnson’s Baby Powder and Shower to Shower products. Talc supplier Imerys also was held accountable by this jury.
The Water Works and Sewer Board of Gadsden filed a lawsuit against textile manufacturers and their chemical suppliers for their alleged role in water pollution after tests reveal higher than acceptable levels of PFOS and PFOA contaminants.
A circuit court jury in Calhoun County, Ala., awarded Gregory Bell and his wife, Althea, $500,000 in compensation for a serious, permanent injury he sustained on the job as a furnace operator at Union Foundry Co. Mr. Bell was operating the furnace on Sept. 28, 2010, when he stepped into an unguarded opening and into hot […]
Announcing its appeal of two multimillion-dollar verdicts linking talc to ovarian cancer, Johnson & Johnson claims plaintiff lawyers created confusion about the link, while denying its own actions to cover up the cancer connection.
Our firm has been serving as Special Counsel to Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood for several years on the Average Wholesale Price (AWP) litigation and have recovered from 61 companies for the State of Mississippi more than $200 million to date, including a $30 million verdict against generic pharmaceutical giant Sandoz, Inc., back in 2011.
Following another jury verdict finding Johnson & Johnson liable for ovarian cancer related to its talc products, Jere Beasley calls on the company to end talc litigation, pull talc products from marketplace.
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