Doctors Who Linked Talc to Cancer Have Been Sued by Johnson & Johnson

Why is Johnson & Johnson suing doctors?

Johnson and Johnson is the latest and greatest corporation to face a serious range of lawsuits in the aftermath of ongoing asbestos exposure research, specifically in relation to their talc baby powder products. But how the company has responded to these claims has been unexpected and unpredictable, to say the least. 

“Todas las formas de asbesto son cancerígenas para los humanos”. ¹

A lot at stake in asbestos litigation

There is no question that Johnson and Johnson has historic examples such as Johns-Manville in mind when they consider what kind of outcome they might face in relation to their products, especially if they come out on the losing side of legal proceedings. 

That’s because Johns-Manville was both the largest manufacturer of asbestos products in the United States, as well as the first of hundreds of thousands of personal injury lawsuits related to asbestos exposure. And that’s what makes the latest turn of events regarding Johnson and Johnson so interesting.

Restructure Before Retreat

Not wanting to face the same financial ruin that other corporations have faced, Johnson and Johnson recently devised a legal workaround of the liability they could face from injury lawsuits related to their products. This legal workaround is a corporate merger under Texas law that has been referred to as the Texas Two-Step. 

What is the Texas Two-Step?

In its most basic sense, the Texas Two-Step provides certain bankruptcy laws that allow a corporation to merge, or more properly, to divide into multiple entities. However, this provision has allowed for the unintended outcome of Johnson and Johnson to do the following:

• Johnson and Johnson form the subsidiary LTL Management LLC (2021)
• Johnson and Johnson transfer all asbestos injury claims to LTL Management
• LTL Management files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

This is not the first example of the Texas Two Step in asbestos litigation, but it does signal that the intention is for Johnson and Johnson to escape injury lawsuits and establish an asbestos trust fund instead. 

More importantly, this action from Johnson and Johnson has had the effect of derailing, or at least halting, all the current lawsuits against the company. Those who look at the actions of the company claim that this is a deceptive way to silence suffering customers of their products by escaping liability.

Johnson & Johnson’s own study revealed the dangers of asbestos in its talc products.

To make matters worse for Johnson and Johnson, the company actually funded a 1971 study that injected prisoners with asbestos in order to compare asbestos and talc skin exposure. Many wonder why there would be any motivation for a company that produces talc baby powder to fund such a study, unless they were aware of trace elements of asbestos in their products.

Will Johnson & Johnson’s lawsuit against doctors be successful?

All in all, it remains to be seen how this will shape the current litigation troubles of Johnson and Johnson. The company has made some interesting moves, starting with the denial of asbestos in their talc products, the removal of talc baby powder from their product line, the transfer of liability to LTL, and now, going on the offensive to discredit the findings of these researchers who have provided the standard case studies that would undoubtedly be used in future litigation against Johnson and Johnson. 

While current litigation and payout are essentially halted during the bankruptcy maneuver, this litigation on behalf of the company can certainly hurt its public image. It is never good for a company to seek escape from liability while simultaneously going after researchers who could be used against them in litigation down the road, especially since they have been used in prior litigation.

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AsbestosClaims.Law

En AsbestosClaims.Law, nuestra misión de asegurar una compensación para las víctimas del asbesto es más que profesional;es personal.

Nuestro fundador, Justinian C. Lane, conoce de primera mano los efectos devastadores del asbesto.

Tanto sus abuelos como su padre, todos trabajadores del asbesto, fallecieron de cánceres inducidos por el asbesto sin darse cuenta de su elegibilidad para juicios por asbesto u otras formas de compensación.

Nuestro objetivo es evitar tales trágicos descuidos informando y guiando a las víctimas y sus familias a través de sus opciones legales.

Si usted o sus seres queridos han sufrido como resultado de la exposición al asbesto, podría ser elegible para una compensación considerable. Estos fondos podrían cubrir tratamientos médicos, servicios de remoción de asbestos y salvaguardar su salud.

Además, los fideicomisos de asbesto ofrecen una compensación sin necesidad de un juicio, brindando un camino más rápido y sencillo hacia la justicia.

Comuníquese con nosotros en [email protected] o (206) 455-9190 para obtener ayuda con su reclamo. Ofrecemos escucha compasiva, explicaciones claras y no cobramos un centavo a menos que ganemos su caso.

Más allá de las demandas legales, también asesoramos sobre discapacidad de veteranos, seguridad social y protección laboral como compensación de trabajadores, FELA, y La ley de Jones para trabajadores marítimos.

No hay riesgo ni costo para conectarse con nuestro equipo experimentado sobre sus derechos. Nuestro compromiso con su bienestar significa que no cobramos honorarios a menos que reciba una compensación.

También presentamos WARD, la base de datos de investigación mundial sobre el asbesto. Es el recurso más completo de información relacionada con el asbesto.

WARD ayuda a identificar posibles escenarios de exposición, productos que contienen asbesto y puede indicar los tipos y posibles montos de compensación que puede tener derecho a recibir.
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