Huge Verdict Upends J&J’s Talc Product Liability Defense Strategy

By | August 23, 2017

  • August 23, 2017 at 1:24 pm
    Sean says:
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    C’mon — Talc / baby powder causes Cancer? what a bunch of BS! Our entire family 6 kids used this product our entire lives? this is a J&J Witch-hunt ~ Look at these $ Judgments for God’s sake!I know people that have been killed as a result of faulty products that never saw a fraction of this kind of $$

    • August 23, 2017 at 2:03 pm
      Agent says:
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      Perhaps California should secede and save the rest of the country the trouble.

    • August 23, 2017 at 3:15 pm
      Counterpoint says:
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      Just because nobody you know has been affected by talc doesn’t mean that it doesn’t affect anybody. Similarly, just because other people have unjustly not received compensation doesn’t mean that every other person should receive insufficient compensation.

      Personally, I’m keeping an open mind on this. Hopefully one side or the other is able to produce definitive evidence on the subject and put this issue to bed. Until then, both sides will be fighting over “maybe”s and “preponderance of evidence”s.

      • August 23, 2017 at 4:03 pm
        Doug Fisher says:
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        Thank you for the intelligent, metered response on this, Counterpoint.

        I am sitting the debate side of this one out, since I am not familiar with the science that says Talc is or is not a carcinogen under the right circumstances.

        Two things:

        1. These awards are absolutely obscene. Contrast these awards with people who have won wrongful death lawsuits by police departments, municipalities, universities, and so on. They are typically a tiny fraction of these payouts. That boy who died in a hazing institute at Clemson was a 250k judgment, with 212 going to the plaintiff’s attorneys!!! I work in workers comp as an underwriter and a death claim pays a miniscule fraction of these judgments. This is getting disgusting.

        2. We use talc on our kids’ bottoms but maybe I will hold off until further notice of studying the science and looking for a consensus. Just as I have changed my life when dealing with sun exposure and sun-screen, so too will I adjust for this if it is indeed harmful. To do otherwise would be brain-dead parenting.



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