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The jury ruled in favor of Emory Hernandez Valadez, who filed suit last year in California state court in Oakland against J&J, seeking monetary damages. The six-week trial was the first over talc that New Brunswick, New Jersey-based J&J has faced in almost two years. Hernandez will not be able to collect the judgment in the foreseeable future, thanks to a bankruptcy court order freezing most litigation over J&J's talc. Jurors heard from Hernandez's mother, Anna Camacho, who said she used large amounts of J&J's baby powder on her son when he was a baby and through childhood. Tens of thousands of plaintiffs have sued, alleging that J&J's baby powder and other talc products sometimes contained asbestos and caused ovarian cancer and mesothelioma.

Persons: Johnson, Emory Hernandez Valadez, Hernandez, Erik Haas, Anna Camacho, Michael Kaplan, LTL, J, Brendan Pierson, Will Dunham, Sandra Maler Organizations: Johnson, J, Reuters, View, LTL Management, LTL's, Thomson Locations: California, Oakland, Brunswick , New Jersey, Trenton , New Jersey, New York

☆ Johnson & Johnson must pay $18.8 million to California cancer patient in baby powder suit
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Johnson & Johnson must pay $18.8 million to a California man who said he developed cancer from exposure to its baby powder, a jury decided on Tuesday, a setback for the company as it seeks to settle thousands of similar cases over its talc-based products in US bankruptcy court. The six-week trial was the first over talc that New Brunswick, New Jersey-based J&J has faced in almost two years. Hernandez will not be able to collect the judgment in the foreseeable future, thanks to a bankruptcy court order freezing most litigation over J&J’s talc. Jurors heard from Hernandez’s mother, Anna Camacho, who said she used large amounts of J&J’s baby powder on her son when he was a baby and through childhood. Tens of thousands of plaintiffs have sued, alleging that J&J’s baby powder and other talc products sometimes contained asbestos and caused ovarian cancer and mesothelioma.

Persons: Johnson, Emory Hernandez Valadez, Hernandez, Erik Haas, ”, Anna Camacho, Michael Kaplan, LTL, J Organizations: J, Reuters, View, LTL Management, LTL’s Locations: California, Oakland, Brunswick , New Jersey, Trenton , New Jersey

Companies Johnson & Johnson FollowJune 26 (Reuters) - A California man suing Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) told jurors on Monday how his life was upended by a cancer diagnosis that he blames on using the company's baby powder since childhood, as the first trial over the product in nearly two years neared its end. J&J has denied that its baby powder contained asbestos or causes cancer. He also said he did not remember his doctor ever telling him that baby powder caused his cancer. Earlier in the day, jurors heard from Hernandez's mother, Anna Camacho, who said she used large amounts of J&J's baby powder on her son when he was a baby and through childhood. Hernandez's trial, expected to conclude later this week, comes as J&J seeks to resolve thousands of similar talc lawsuits through a settlement.

Persons: Johnson, Emory Hernandez, J, Hernandez, Anthony, Allison Brown, Anna Camacho, Michael Kaplan, Kaplan, Brendan Pierson, Alexia Garamfalvi, Matthew Lewis Organizations: Johnson, Alameda County Superior Court, View, LTL Management, Chief U.S, U.S, Thomson Locations: California, Alameda County, Emory, Trenton , New Jersey, New Jersey, New York

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