#Talcum Powder Lawsuit

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Victims of talcum powder-related cancer cases have received substantial settlements, with average amounts varying based on individual circumstances. If you or a loved one suffered from ovarian cancer or mesothelioma after using talcum powder, you may be entitled to compensation. Reach out to an experienced attorney to learn about the average settlement amounts and your eligibility to file a claim. Secure the financial compensation you deserve for medical expenses, lost wages, and more.Contact - 800-352-0871

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I love fucking working as housekeeper (derogatory)

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Johnson and Johnson's bankruptcy gambit fails

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has foiled Johnson & Johnson’s plan to use a bankruptcy scam called the Texas Two-Step to escape paying 40,000 women who were injured when the pharma giant sold them asbestos-tainted talcum powder to dust over their vulvas, leading to gruesome cancers:

https://www.wxxinews.org/2023-01-30/appeals-court-clears-the-way-for-more-lawsuits-over-johnsons-baby-powder

If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/01/j-and-j-jk/#risible-gambit

Back in 2018, a jury awarded $4.69 billion to 22 women whose ovarian cancer was caused by J&J’s toxic product, $4.14b of which was punitive, awarded because J&J ignored the link between applying talcum powder to one’s genitals and cancer, and continued to market its products as a “Shower to Shower” genital deodorant:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/13/health/4-69-billion-verdict-johnson--johnson-talcum-powder/index.html

With thousands more lawsuits in the pipeline, the company sprung into action, restructuring in Texas using a quirk of the state’s merger laws that allows a single company to “merge” into two separate entities.

https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BO/htm/BO.10.htm

The Texas Two-Step is a corrupt gambit that uses this quirk to allow large companies to escape liability for their misdeeds, by creating one company that holds the assets and profitable businesses of the firm, and another company that holds the firm’s toxic products and the liabilities they produced. The “bad” company then declares bankruptcy, leaving the “good” company to walk away with the billions it made by harming people, and leaving the victims to squabble over the meager assets from the bankruptcy.

To maintain the pretense that this maneuver isn’t just a ruse to escape liability, companies undertaking the Texas Two-Step have the “good” company guarantee some of the liabilities of the “bad” company. That’s what J&J did, and the women it injured sued over it:

https://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/222003p.pdf

The appeals court didn’t find J&J’s bankruptcy persuasive. They found that any bankruptcy for the “bad” company should come after it had exhausted all guarantees the “good” company had made. Summarizing the court opinion Bloomberg’s Matt Levine writes, “You want to file for bankruptcy while you still have plenty of money to pay claims, but not too much money.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-01-31/matt-levine-johnson-johnson-s-jnj-bankruptcy-didn-t-work

J&J has vowed to appeal. If their appeal succeeds, it will be another blow against corporate accountability and against the bankruptcy system, both of which have are at their lowest ebb in living memory. Just the fact that J&J is still in business is remarkable. Poison talcum powder is only the latest salvo in J&J’s war on women’s reproductive organs — just a year ago, the company was ordered to pay hundreds of millions for selling women vaginal meshes, aggressively marketed for incontinence and prolapse, long after it learned that these meshes could permanently fuse with patient’s pelvic floors, leading to “severe pain, bleeding, infections, discomfort during intercourse.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/13/johnson-johnson-pelvic-mesh-implant-ads-case

J&J was also neck-deep in the opioid crisis, going to far as to commission a report from McKinsey entitled “Maximizing Value of the Narcotics Franchise,” on how to use its dominance of poppy-extract to corner the market on opioids:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/30/mckinsey-mafia/#everybody-must-get-stoned

It was the opioid sector that brought popular attention — and well-earned disgust — to the US bankruptcy. The criminal Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharma and proprietors of OxyContin, used a nakedly corrupt move to shift their bankruptcy proceeding to Judge Robert Drain of the Southern District of New York:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/07/hr-4193/#shoppers-choice

Drain is notoriously tolerant of corporate crime and is an enthusiastic booster for the principle of using bankruptcies to escape consequences for corporate mass-murder. Which is exactly what the Sacklers did, cramming through a bankruptcy deal that let them walk away with billions, stiffing the survivors of their opioid business:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/29/impunity-corrodes/#morally-bankrupt

J&J told women to put carcinogens down their underwear. For decades. It gave tens of thousands of women ovarian cancer. Then it tried to use Texas’s courts to walk away with billions. But this time, a court stopped them. This time there’s no separate system of justice, like the one that gave the Sacklers billions in dirty money. This time, the company might just have to pay for its crimes.

Image: James Wagstaff (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/jesse/2256760407/

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[Image ID: A picture of a white-out dust storm at Burning Man. A giant tulip rises out of the dust. Its petals are suggestive of a vulva. A giant bottle of Johnson and Johnson baby powder enters the frame from the top right corner.]

[fromkenari]

Sweating is normal. Sweating is healthy. Do not shame people for sweating. Do not let big brands shame you for sweating. You do not need to blast your crotch or groin with aerosols to be considered "fresh" and not "gross."

It started with the weird obsession with stopping sweat with Lume for the last couple of years (which is pricey, and, well, you know how corporations feel about dollar signs) and now has spiraled into major brands shaming people for not using their "new" products for "all over freshness."

Let me tell you something, this shit is not new. Everything was aerosol spray deodorant and antiperspirant before we realized that aerosols contribute to greenhouse gases. That's why everyone went back to solids and soft solids.

I had hyperhidrosis when I was a teen. It was humiliating, and I had to use prescription antiperspirant at night so that I wouldn't look like I went to take a swim between classes by noon. But I got over it after puberty puttered out in my 20s.

Blasting every crevice of your body, if you're gonna do it, should be a special occasion thing. Please, don't do this every day and look up the lawsuits for extended talcum/baby powder and aluminum use. Teenagers, especially, should not be doing this. Talk to your doctor if your clothing and self-esteem are getting ruined by excess sweat.

Also, it is a good time to say not to shame people for body odor and sweating. It's normal. Trying to cover it up and stop it is an abnormal thing. Furthermore, some people don't sweat! Especially those with certain disabilities! And that is a whole new host of potentially scary problems. So do not envy them.

We'll save the chat about celebrities getting botox injections to stop sweating before events for another day, but it's not good! You need to sweat. Listen to your body. Hydrate. Quit letting corporations use the same tactics they used for body hair, teeth whitening, skin lightening, and even make-up come at another generation about sweat.

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What information do you have about Johnson & Johnson?

Alza filed an NDA for the transdermal opioid analgesic product in December 1987 for post-operative use and for the relief of chronic cancer pain. Developed by J&J subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceutica, fentanyl has been marketed since 1968 under the Sublimaze brand. The drug is currently approved for I.V. administration and used primarily as a short-acting analgesic during anaesthesia. "This new drug delivery system will make it possible for the first time to use fentanyl . . . outside the operating room to control moderate to severe pain." Source

US opioids: Johnson and Johnson and drug distributors offer $26bn to end thousands of lawsuits. Source

The drug company Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has expressed regret after court documents unsealed in talcum powder litigation showed that it funded a 1971 study in which Pennsylvania prison inmates, most of them black, were injected subcutaneously with asbestos. Source

Asbestos Prisoner Study May Spell More Problems for Johnson & Johnson

WASHINGTON - Global health care giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and its subsidiaries will pay more than $2.2 billion to resolve criminal and civil liability arising from allegations relating to the prescription drugs Risperdal, Invega and Natrecor, including promotion for uses not approved as safe and effective by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and payment of kickbacks to physicians and to the nation’s largest long-term care pharmacy provider.  The global resolution is one of the largest health care fraud settlements in U.S. history, including criminal fines and forfeiture totaling $485 million and civil settlements with the federal government and states totaling $1.72 billion. Source

Johnson & Johnson paused all clinical trials of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine after a study participant became sick with an "unexplained illness."

Johnson & Johnson has suspended international trials of a drug in the same class as an experimental drug made by Portuguese pharmaceutical company Bial, whose tests in France left one person brain dead and five others hospitalised. Source

1982 - McNeil

Product Recalled - Tylenol (acetaminophen) capsules

Reason for Recall - Medicine laced with potassium cyanide (poison) resulting in several patient deaths.

2009 to 2011 - McNeil

Product Recalled - Several OTC medicines including Tylenol, Motrin, Benadryl, St. Joseph aspirin, Sudafed, Pepcid, Mylanta, Rolaids, Zyrtec, Zyrtec Eye Drops (tens of millions of bottles)

Reason for Recall - Unpleasant smells causing nausea; tiny metal shards in liquid medicines; wrong ingredient levels

2010 - DePuy [Pinnacle Systems]

Product Recalled - ASR Hip Resurfacing System and ASR XL Acetabular System (metal-on-metal hip implants)

Reason for Recall - Metal poisoning (metallosis); loosening of the implant or joint dislocation; additional surgeries

2012 - Ethicon

Product Recalled - Gynecare Prolift Kit, Gynecare Prolift+M Kit, Gynecare TVT Secure and Gynecare Prosima Pelvic Floor Repair System Kit (transvaginal mesh implants)

Reason for Recall - Perforation of organs; vaginal bleeding and scarring; mesh erosion; severe pain

2014 - Ethicon

Product Recalled - Power Morcellators

Reason for Recall - Spread of uterine cancer; rapid progression of the disease; death

2019 – Johnson & Johnson

Product Recalled – 33,000 bottles of Johnson’s Baby Powder

Reason for Recall – The FDA found a small amount of asbestos — a known carcinogen — in a sample

Xarelto

Number of Lawsuits - 13,511

Injuries - severe, sometimes deadly bleeding events, blood clots, wound leaks, infection

J&J was involved in seven of 2017’s top ten health-care-related verdicts.

The company was also involved in the third-largest pharmaceutical settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice. In 2013, J&J paid the Justice Department more than $2.2 billion. The settlement resolved civil and criminal allegations involving Risperdal, Invega and Natrecor.

May 2017

J&J paid $33 million to most U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The states charged J&J with misrepresenting the manufacturing practices behind certain drugs. This included its Motrin products. These products were later recalled.

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Avon, which begin in 1886, are filing for Chapter 11 (bankruptcy). I think if you're a child from the 70s or 80s, you knew someone who sold Avon. You probably even flipped through one of the little catalogues. It's a bit of a childhood gone by.

But before you get nostalgic about it, know that:

It doesn't affect the US-based Avon, which is owned by a different company, and

2. The reason the non-US company is filing Chapter 11 is to avoid/settle over 200 lawsuits involving their use of talcum powder in their eye shadow and face powders; talcum is a mineral that has been linked to cancer.

Yeah, there's that.

Interestingly, no one I knew who bought from Avon bought (facial) beauty products. It was always perfume in oddly shaped bottles and fake jewelry.

ANNOUNCER: Next in the WayBack Machine, we'll talk about Tupperware!

Avon Products Inc, 1976

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Talcum Powder to Deodorize Genitals May Cause Ovarian Cancer

As hundreds file a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson over connections to the disease, a 44-year-old woman says that using talcum powder to “deodorize” her genitalia caused her to develop ovarian cancer. It would be the largest pharmaceutical group action in English and Welsh legal history as well as the first lawsuit the corporation has ever faced on the matter in the UK. It comes after Johnson &…

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Attorney Benjamin Lloyd Crump (October 10, 1969) is an attorney who specializes in civil rights and catastrophic personal injury cases such as wrongful death lawsuits. His practice has focused on cases such as Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and George Floyd, the people poisoned during the Flint water crisis, and the plaintiffs behind the 2019 Johnson & Johnson baby powder lawsuit alleging the company’s talcum powder product led to ovarian cancer diagnoses. He is the founder of the firm Ben Crump Law of Tallahassee.

He became the attorney for the families of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Jacob Blake. Ongoing cases surrounding them led to protests against police brutality in America as well as internationally.

He was born in Lumberton, North Carolina. The oldest of nine siblings and step-siblings, he grew up in an extended family and was raised by his grandmother. His mother Helen worked as a hotel maid and in a local Converse shoe factory. His mother sent him to attend South Plantation High School in Plantation, Florida, where he lived with her second husband, a math teacher.

He attended Florida State University and received his BS in criminal justice and his JD in 1995. He is a life member of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.

He is married to Genea Crump and has 1 children. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #omegapsiphi

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Johnson & Johnson’s Third Bankruptcy: The Talcum Powder Crisis.

Johnson & Johnson’s Third Bankruptcy: The Talcum Powder Crisis.

Johnson & Johnson’s Third Bankruptcy: The Talcum Powder Crisis. Johnson & Johnson (J&J), a household name in healthcare products, has been embroiled in legal battles for years over allegations that its talcum powder products cause cancer. These lawsuits have significant implications for consumers, the company, and the broader healthcare industry. This article delves into the history, scientific…

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Okay so you know how Crayola took talc out of their crayons twenty years ago? And you know how Johnson & Johnson lost a 4.4 billion dollar lawsuit over their talcum powder giving people cancer? And you know how those "beeswax" hippie dippie crayons I bought from the stationery store (are mostly petroleum AND) contain talc?

Anyway, assuming I never ground the crayons up and snort the powder, are they dangerous? Esp since I have ovaries. Would the wax crumblies get into the air? Were I to wear the crayons into stubs would it be safe to remelt the crayons into new ones?

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Talcum Powder and Cancer: Breaking Down the Evidence Behind the Lawsuit ...

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Cancer victims ask court to block J&J talcum powder bankruptcy

A group of cancer victims asked a federal judge to block Johnson & Johnson’s proposed bankruptcy settlement over tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging that the company’s baby powder and other talcum powder products caused their illnesses, according to Reuters.

The victims filed a motion late Tuesday night in a New Jersey court seeking a temporary restraining order to prevent a J&J subsidiary from declaring bankruptcy in Texas or another jurisdiction outside New Jersey.

The plaintiffs claim they will suffer “irreparable harm” if the court does not block the filing of such a lawsuit. Meanwhile, J&J intends to declare bankruptcy for the subsidiary after the plaintiffs vote on the $6.48 billion settlement proposal. The company hopes to secure the support of 75 per cent of the claimants as part of a ready-made bankruptcy plan. J&J set a deadline of 26 July for the vote. Erik Haas, J&J’s worldwide vice president of litigation, stated:

This is yet another meritless pleading by the same small group of plaintiff law firms who have fought every single effort to resolve this litigation to date.

Haas reiterated longstanding allegations that opposing plaintiffs’ attorneys were demanding additional fees not possible in bankruptcy and were putting their economic interests ahead of those of their clients.

We therefore will immediately ask the Court to reject this frivolous filing.

The company faced lawsuits from more than 61,000 plaintiffs alleging that its talcum powder caused ovarian cancer or mesothelioma, a deadly cancer linked to asbestos exposure. However, J&J claims its talc is safe, asbestos-free and does not cause cancer.

Read more HERE

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