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Mesothelioma Victim Seeks New Trial After FDA Discovers Asbestos in J&J Baby Powder
There are over 15,000 trials pending against Johnson & Johnson, accusing the company of exposing victims of malignant mesothelioma and ovarian cancer to asbestos in their iconic baby powder product. Several of these cases have already been resolved, with some ending in multi-million dollar jury verdicts for victims and others being won by the company.
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Maryland Mesothelioma Victims Push Back Against Judges’ Plan
The Baltimore court system is swamped with cases filed by victims of malignant mesothelioma and other asbestos-related diseases. There have been numerous efforts to ease the backlog of roughly 30,000 cases. Though everybody involved in the gridlock agrees that something needs to be done, there’s a significant difference between the fix that Maryland’s judges are
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Australian Program Will Examine Mesothelioma “Exceptional Responders”
In medical terms, “exceptional responders” are patients diagnosed with unresponsive diseases such as malignant mesothelioma who have exceptional responses. These patients are interesting because therapies that haven’t worked in most patients have worked on them. Now Australia has created its first multi-tumor “exceptional responder” program to determine what sets “exceptional responders” with a variety of
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Port Authority of New York Faces Mesothelioma Lawsuit Over JFK’s Pan Am Terminal
Facing a mesothelioma lawsuit filed by a man who’d worked as a Pan Am employee for years, the Port Authority of New York filed a motion for summary judgment that argued they could not be held responsible for multiple reasons. But even though Bernd Hildebrand died less than two months after his diagnosis with the
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Functional Age An Essential Consideration in Mesothelioma Treatment
When an individual has been diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma, they are suddenly confronted with a grim set of questions and options. Should they pursue aggressive treatment or simply look for symptom relief? Is their goal to maintain a high quality of life or do they want to have the longest survival time possible? These questions
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Pennsylvania Court Decision Could Impact Future Mesothelioma Cases
People who have been diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma are confronted with many difficult decisions, and one is whether or not to pursue justice against those responsible for exposing them to asbestos. Those who choose litigation can realize enormous financial outcomes that secure their family’s economic future, but do so knowing that the process can be
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Study Reveals that Incidence and Survival of Mesothelioma is Largely Unchanged
It has been decades since the public learned that exposure to asbestos leads to malignant mesothelioma and a host of other serious and deadly diseases. In response to that revelation, significant changes have been made in the use of the carcinogenic material, as well as the protections provided to those at risk of exposure. There
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Appeals Court Decides In Favor of Mesothelioma Victim’s Family Regarding $13 Million Jury Award
The family of a man who lost his battle with mesothelioma four long years ago received good news from a California appellate court last week: The court affirmed the $13 million verdict that a lower court jury had awarded to the family, denying Tyson Foods their assertion that the verdict should be overturned.
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Scientists Take Closer Look at Nevada Mesothelioma Cases After Identifying Naturally-Occurring Asbestos
It has been several years since University of Nevada, Las Vegas medical geologist Brenda Buck identified naturally-occurring asbestos in an area northeast of Las Vegas and raised an alarm about the risk of mesothelioma from a planned highway construction project. Though that issue was managed, the concerns about asbestos in one of the nation’s fastest
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Journalists Who Covered 9/11 Now Fear Mesothelioma and Other Illnesses
A recent episode airing on CNN Business featured two journalists who covered the 9/11 terror attacks at ground zero, and who now are speaking out on behalf of others who may be at risk for malignant mesothelioma and other asbestos-related diseases. The two are Bruce David Martin, a former news operation manager and photo journalist,
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Mesothelioma Widow’s Case Against John Crane, Inc. Permitted to Continue
Time and time again in mesothelioma cases that are heard all around the country, asbestos companies create spurious arguments against their liability for victims’ exposure to asbestos. Once they stand accused of wrongdoing they push back hard, creating defenses that twist witnesses’ words and misdirect attention in hopes that judges will agree with them. All
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Pittsburg Man’s Mesothelioma Death Blamed on Asbestos from 9/11 Site
A 52-year-old Pittsburgh man has succumbed to malignant mesothelioma, and the asbestos exposure that caused his disease has been directly linked to his act of heroism immediately following the 9/11 World Trade Center terrorist attack. Nick Ursta was treated at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, which confirmed his disease’s link to World Trade Center
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When It Comes to Mesothelioma, This May Have Been Johnson & Johnson’s Worst Week Ever
When it comes to malignant mesothelioma and ovarian cancer, things were already going very badly for iconic consumer product company Johnson & Johnson. Their talc-based baby powder product has been named in thousands of lawsuits accusing company executives of knowing that the product was contaminated with asbestos and doing nothing to protect or warn vulnerable
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Discovery of Asbestos In Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder Impacts Mesothelioma and Ovarian Cancer Lawsuits
It’s been just one week since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration revealed they’d discovered asbestos in bottles of Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder, but that announcement has already impacted lawsuits filed by both malignant mesothelioma victims and victims diagnosed with ovarian cancer. In both cases plaintiffs have accused the company’s product of being contaminated
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Is Having Both Pleural Mesothelioma and Peritoneal Mesothelioma Possible?
Malignant mesothelioma is one of the rarest of all cancers, so patients diagnosed with the asbestos-related disease often spend the first days after their diagnosis reading as much as they can about how it forms and what to expect. One of the first things they are likely to learn is that there are different versions
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48-Year-Old California Woman Blames Her Mesothelioma on Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder
As the nation considers news that a recently-purchased sample of Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder tested positive for chrysotile asbestos, a 48-year-old California woman is suing the company, saying that asbestos in their product caused her malignant mesothelioma. Opening statements in the lawsuit filed by Amy Fong and her husband Put Fong were heard one
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Goodyear Must Face Jury In Face of Carpenter’s Mesothelioma Death
Before being diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma, Peter Komiak worked as a carpenter and a flooring installer, as well as a home renovation professional. The New York man’s career started in 1960, when he worked part-time for a carpeting retailer in Hempstead, Long Island while still in high school. Over the next thirty years he worked
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Oncology Team Reports Promising Results From Combining Immuno-gene Therapy and Radiotherapy
Researchers working to find a cure for malignant mesothelioma are acutely aware of the need for speed: the disease is always considered fatal, and more people are diagnosed with and die of the condition every day. Still, there is a process that must be followed: theories need to be tested in the laboratory before people,
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California Woman Born in Hong Kong is Latest Mesothelioma Victim to Blame Johnson & Johnson
Pui “Amy” Fong is just 48 years old, but the California mother of two faces a grim, foreshortened future after having been diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma. She blames asbestos contamination in Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder for her illness, and this week marked the beginning of her personal injury lawsuit against the company.
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Court Reverses Decision That Would Have Cheated Mesothelioma Victim of Compensation
In a notable victory for a mesothelioma victim, the Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit has overturned a trial court decision that would have left the victim unable to collect the compensation they were owed. The decision not only allows justice for the individual victim, but also establishes an important precedent for victims going
