On June 1, 2021, the Plaintiffs in the Johnson & Johnson (“J&J”) talcum powder litigation celebrated another major victory!  The Supreme Court declined J&J’s petition for appeal of the multi-billion-dollar verdict awarded against them by a Missouri jury. As was previously reported, in October 2019,…

Judge Rules Johnson & Johnson Must Pay $185 Million to Four Victims Earlier this month, a New Jersey jury awarded $750 million to four plaintiffs, determining that Johnson & Johnson (J&J) was responsible for the cancer (Mesothelioma) each plaintiff had developed, following their use of…

Johnson & Johnson Stands by the Safety of Its Baby Powder—the FDA Isn’t so Sure In yet another blow to its reputation as a personal-care company, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) recalled 33,000 bottles of its popular baby powder last month over concerns of toxic contamination.…

Johnson & Johnson is currently under criminal investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and Securities & Exchange Commission concerning contamination of its baby powder. In 2014, the FDA denied a request to include the warning that talcum powder could contain asbestos. At that time,…

A Multi-District Litigation (MDL) has been ordered to combine Johnson & Johnson talcum powder lawsuits from federal courts all over the country into one court, the U. S. District Court of New Jersey. All federal cases citing the use of Johnson & Johnson talcum powder…

A Saint Louis jury recently awarded a 62-year-old California woman over $70 million dollars in damages. The women claimed her long-term regular use of Johnson & Johnson Talcum Powder caused her ovarian cancer. The California women had religiously used J & J Talcum Powder for…

Thousands of pending lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson allege that the company failed to warn their customers about the potential link between regular use of talcum powder for feminine hygiene purposes and an increased risk of developing ovarian cancer. The most recent talcum powder ovarian…

The FDA is alerting women about the risks associated with the use of tests being marketed as ovarian cancer screening tests. The FDA warns that these tests may result in “false-negatives” in women that are at high risk for ovarian cancer, thereby discouraging them from…

September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, and at The Yost Legal Group we want to help educate you on the causes and treatments of ovarian cancer, as well as provide resources for families that are dealing with this serious illness. By raising awareness and increasing…

For more than 35 years, there have been suspicions in the medical community that long-term use of talcum powder on the genital area could be linked to an increased risk of developing ovarian cancer. Numerous scientific studies have been published on this subject, and now…