Jury Orders J&J to Pay $750 Million in Baby Powder Cancer Trial February 7, 2020 By Lisa Girion and Michael Erman Johnson & Johnson was ordered on Thursday by a New Jersey state jury to pay punitive damages of $750 million...
Industry, Government Air Differences Over Asbestos Testing of Talc Powders, Cosmetics February 5, 2020 By Chad Terhune and Lisa Girion For the first time in nearly 50 years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration examined asbestos testing for talc powders...
FDA Hearing to Address Testing of Talcum Powders, Cosmetics for Asbestos February 4, 2020 By Chad Terhune and Lisa Girion For the first time in nearly 50 years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will examine asbestos testing for talc...
J&J CEO Testifies in Baby Powder Trial He Relied on Experts on Asbestos Risk January 28, 2020 By Michael Erman and Lisa Girion Johnson & Johnson Chief Executive Alex Gorsky on Monday faced questions from plaintiffs lawyers over the timing of his sale...
U.S. Panel Backs Tougher Asbestos Testing Standards for Cosmetics January 13, 2020 By Chad Terhune and Lisa Girion An expert panel formed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has endorsed asbestos testing standards for cosmetics that reject...
Reuters Report: Why Big Business Can Count on Courts to Keep Deadly Secrets December 20, 2019 By Michelle Conlin, Dan Levine and Lisa Girion In the dreary archives of a Newark, New Jersey, courthouse, Ronald Motley found a treasure map. It was an evidence...
Reuters Special Report: Powder Keg- Regulators Bowed to Industry for Decades Over Talc Risks December 3, 2019 By Lisa Girion and Chad Terhune At an invitation-only gathering late last year, U.S. regulators and their guests huddled at a hotel near Washington, D.C., to...
Reuters Report: How Judges’ Secrecy Has Added to Toll of Opioids and Other Products June 25, 2019 By Benjamin Lesser, Dan Levine, Lisa Girion and Jaimi Dowdell WELCH, West Virginia —The opioid epidemic that has so far killed half a million Americans is routinely blamed on greedy...
Reuters: J&J Refocused Baby Powder Marketing on Minority, Overweight Women April 10, 2019 By Chris Kirkham and Lisa Girion Pressure was mounting on Johnson & Johnson and its signature Baby Powder. In 2006, an arm of the World Health...
Doctor, Early Advocate for Opioids, to Testify Against Drug Makers: Reuters April 8, 2019 By Lisa Girion and Maria Caspani A physician ally of Purdue Pharma LP whose views helped drive the explosive growth in the use of addictive pain...