Four New Baby Powder Lawsuits Filed In California

Four new Johnson & Johnson's baby powder lawsuits were filed before the California Superior Court for Los Angeles County in mid-late June.

Monday, June 27, 2016 - Four new Johnson & Johnson's baby powder cancer lawsuits have been filed before the California Superior Court for Los Angeles County over the past week. The talcum powder lawsuits all allege that Johnson & Johnson failed to warn the plaintiffs of the medically researched connections between talcum powder and ovarian cancer. Johnson & Johnson has maintained that it denies any such link exists, and is doing so in the face of more than 1,000 baby powder cancer lawsuits currently pending around the country.

The Johnson & Johnson's baby powder lawsuits are beginning to stack up in Los Angeles, which has seen a handful of suits filed before the California Superior Court for Los Angeles County in recent months. Currently, most of the talcum powder ovarian cancer lawsuits in the U.S. are filed in New Jersey, where Johnson & Johnson is headquartered, and St. Louis, where the two most recent trials have taken place. There are upwards of 1,200 talcum powder lawsuits currently pending around the country, and that number continues to rise as the news of massive awards following talcum powder trials spreads. There are also a spattering of lawsuits spread throughout the other U.S. states, and one was recently filed in Canada.

The Los Angeles talcum powder ovarian cancer lawyers will likely be following the same arguments used by their predecessors in regards to Johnson & Johnson's actions relating to talcum powder and ovarian cancer. Baby powder cancer attorneys around the country have alleged that Johnson & Johnson was aware that more than a dozen medical studies had been conducted beginning in 1971 that found a correlation between the genital use of talcum powder by women and an increased risk for the contraction of ovarian cancer. Some of these studies put the increased risk as high as 33 percent, and doctors have discovered talc residue in cancerous ovaries they have removed from patients who claimed they used talcum powder regularly.

Talcum powder attorneys have also uncovered a number of internal documents that prove Johnson & Johnson were aware of the existence of the medical studies questioning the safety of their product for more than a decade and still decided against warning their consumer base. This kind of negligence made a great impact on both juries that heard Johnson & Johnson's baby powder lawsuit trials this year, leading to a combined $127 million in awards for the plaintiffs. Between the medical research available and the internal documents that have been discovered, talcum powder lawyers have much to be confident about going forward in baby powder litigation.

The Los Angeles talcum powder cancer lawsuits will be following the developments in talcum powder news over the coming months. The next talcum powder ovarian cancer lawsuit trial is scheduled to begin before the City of St. Louis Circuit Court in September, with another recently announced to take place in February. There are a number of legal experts that predict if too many more talcum powder lawsuit trials are decided in heavy favor of the plaintiffs, Johnson & Johnson may be better off opting for a lump sum settlement to end the claims filed against the company.

Information provided by TalcumPowderCancerLawsuit.com, a website devoted to providing news about talcum powder ovarian cancer lawsuits, as well as medical research and findings.