Maria Chutchian
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A plaque is displayed at the entrance of the U.S. District Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, New York, U.S., January 9, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Insurers who could be left footing the bill for personal injury litigation against former talc miner Cyprus Mines Corporation are challenging the company s proposed candidate to represent future tort claimants.
Cyprus is asking U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Laurie Selber Silverstein in Delaware to approve Roger Frankel as the future claims representative (FCR) in its Chapter 11 case. A status conference on the matter is scheduled for Monday.
Johnson & Johnson and Imerys Talc America on Wednesday wiped away verdicts totaling $117 million in damages over claims J&J's talcum powder products contained asbestos and caused a man's mesothelioma, after a New Jersey appeals court found that his experts' improper testimony warranted new trials.
NEW BRUNSWICK – An appeals court has reversed a $117 million award on an Essex County couple s claim that the husband developed cancer after his long-term exposure to asbestos in Johnson & Johnson’s talcum powder-based products.
A Superior Court jury in Middlesex County awarded Stephen Lanzo III and his wife Kendra Lanzo, of Verona, $80 million in punitive damages and $37 million in compensatory damages from J&J and Imerys Talc America in an April 2018 trial.
But a state appellate court on Wednesday overturned the award and ordered new trials in the case.
J&J welcomed the court s opinion.
“The Appellate Division’s careful opinion is consistent with decades of independent scientific testing confirming our talc is safe, does not contain asbestos and does not cause cancer, the company said in a statement. The court struck at the core strategy of the plaintiffs’ bar, concluding that paid experts are not allowed to present junk science that purports to find asbestos whe
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NEW BRUNSWICK – An appeals court has reversed a $117 million award on an Essex County couple s claim that the husband developed cancer after his long-term exposure to asbestos in Johnson & Johnson’s talcum powder-based products.
A Superior Court jury in Middlesex County awarded Stephen Lanzo III and his wife Kendra Lanzo, of Verona, $80 million in punitive damages and $37 million in compensatory damages from J&J and Imerys Talc America in an April 2018 trial.
But a state appellate court on Wednesday overturned the award and ordered new trials in the case.
J&J welcomed the court s opinion.
“The Appellate Division’s careful opinion is consistent with decades of independent scientific testing confirming our talc is safe, does not contain asbestos and does not cause cancer, the company said in a statement. The court struck at the core strategy of the plaintiffs’ bar, concluding that paid experts are not allowed to present junk science that purports to fi
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J&J, Imerys Beat $117M Talc Verdicts Over Flawed Testimony
Law360 (April 28, 2021, 5:17 PM EDT) Johnson & Johnson and Imerys Talc America on Wednesday wiped away verdicts totaling $117 million in damages over claims J&J s talcum powder products contained asbestos and caused a man s mesothelioma, after a New Jersey appeals court found that his experts improper testimony warranted new trials.
Slightly more than three years after jurors sided with Stephen Lanzo III and his wife, a three-judge appellate panel nixed the verdicts and ordered new trials after concluding that Superior Court Judge Ana C. Viscomi was wrong to allow James Webber and Dr. Jacqueline Moline to testify during the trial that non-asbestiform minerals could cause mesothelioma..