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$50B California Court Case Over ‘Deadly Legacy’ of Opioids Begins
Four drugmakers helped cause the deadly U.S. opioid epidemic by deceptively marketing their drugs and downplaying their addictive risks, a lawyer for several California counties argued on Monday at ...
J&J’s Contribution to Potential U.S. Opioid Settlement Could Hit $5B
Johnson & Johnson said on Tuesday it will contribute up to $1 billion more to a potential settlement of lawsuits alleging it and other companies fueled the U.S. opioid epidemic, bringing its ...
1,000 Talc Lawsuits Against J&J Could Be Revived
A New Jersey appeals court's decision to revive two lawsuits accusing Johnson & Johnson's iconic Baby Powder of causing cancer may lead to the reinstatement of about 1,000 suits targeting the ...
Johnson & Johnson Will Pull Talc Baby Powder From U.S., Canada
Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday announced it would stop selling its talc Baby Powder in the United States and Canada, saying demand had dropped in the wake of what it called "misinformation" about ...
$8B Risperdal Award Against J&J Slashed to $6.8M
A Pennsylvania judge on Friday slashed to $6.8 million from $8 billion a punitive damages award against Johnson & Johnson to a man who said it failed to warn that boys using its antipsychotic ...
J&J Reportedly Agrees to Rare Talc Settlement
Johnson & Johnson agreed in the middle of a trial to pay more than $2 million to resolve a woman's claims that asbestos-laced baby powder caused her cancer, according to people familiar with the ...
Facing Thousands of Lawsuits, J&J Claims New Tests Show Asbestos-Free Baby Powder
Johnson & Johnson said on Tuesday that recent tests showed that Johnson's Baby Powder was free of asbestos, after U.S. Food and Drug Administration investigations reported trace amounts of the ...
Appeals Court Upholds $70M Verdict Against J&J Over Risperdal Side Effects
A Pennsylvania appeals court upheld a $70 million verdict against Johnson & Johnson in a lawsuit charging its Risperdal anti-psychotic drug caused a man to grow female breasts and also ruled that ...