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  • Johnson & Johnson tumbles after report says it knew for decades...its baby powder contained asbestos

    12/14/2018 11:27:15 AM PST · by Red Badger · 51 replies
    markets.businessinsider.com ^ | Dec. 14, 2018, 11:12 AM | Rebecca Ungarino
    Johnson & Johnson shares sank 8% Friday after Reuters reported that the pharmaceutical giant knew for decades that its baby powder contained asbestos. Reuters reviewed documents, deposition, and trial testimony from at least 1971 to the early 2000s that it said showed powders and raw talc sometimes tested positively for small traces of asbestos. Furthermore, "company executives, mine managers, scientists, doctors, and lawyers fretted over the problem and how to address it while failing to disclose it to regulators or the public," the Reuters reporter Lisa Girion wrote. Johnson & Johnson issued a statement on Friday in response to the...
  • Asbestos Fraud

    11/20/2002 12:23:56 PM PST · by GeneD · 6 replies · 216+ views
    The Washington Post ^ | 11/20/2002 | Robert J. Samuelson
    Every law school should offer a course in legal ethics called "How Lawyers Abuse the Law." The first case study would be asbestos litigation, which shows how the thirst for profits has led a small group of trial lawyers to erode the rights of legitimate victims while driving dozens of companies into bankruptcy and -- worst of all -- corrupting the court system. If Congress does not fix this problem, shame on it....