The company said, “This trial suffered significant legal and evidentiary errors which Johnson & Johnson believes will warrant a reversal on appeal. Decades of tests by independent experts and academic institutions repeatedly confirm that Johnson’s Baby Powder does not contain asbestos or cause cancer.”
In addition, it said, “Of all the verdicts against Johnson & Johnson that have been through the appellate process, every one has been overturned.”
Johnson & Johnson is facing thousands of lawsuits related to its talc-based baby powder products. In May 2018, A California jury ordered the company to pay $25 million to a woman suffering from pleural mesothelioma. Another jury in California hit the company with a $29 million verdict in a similar case.
Last week, a jury in South Carolina determined that Johnson’s Baby Powder does not contain asbestos. The product was not the cause of the plaintiff’s peritoneal mesothelioma.
