Talc Torts

  

Two court decision have gone against lawyers suing Johnson & Johnson recently over the lawyers belief that talcum power contributed to cancer.
     One of the large law firms involved in a series of lawsuits is Montgomery based Beasley-Allen, headed by former Alabama Lt. Governor Jere Beasley. Reuters' story calls the decision in favor of J&J a "disaster" for the plaintiffs, but quotes a Montgomery lawyer saying the suits are far from finished:

Nearly 3,000 talc plaintiffs, meanwhile, aren’t in state court at all. Their cases are in a federal multidistrict litigation before U.S. District Judge Freda Wolfson of Newark. One of the lead plaintiffs’ lawyers in the MDL, Leigh O’Dell of Beasley Allen, said in a phone interview that Judge Nelson’s view of the causation evidence won’t affect the cases in federal court.

“It’s not the result we had hoped for in plaintiffs’ world,” O’Dell said of the Echeverria decision. “The ruling is contrary to the law as we understand it in California … We think the epidemiology is not only strong but getting stronger.”