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Not Just J&J’s Problem: The Evolving Talc Litigation Landscape

 
• By Ryan Nelson

Legal experts see cosmetic talc suits flaring along two tracks – either alleging the carcinogenicity of talc itself or linking cancer cases to asbestos-tainted talc sources. At least one attorney sees the latter as a potentially bigger threat to the cosmetics industry with the traditional pool of asbestos defendants drying up.

Cosmetics firms with a history of talc use could find themselves haunted by alleged wrongdoing in their past or simply be victims of circumstance as the plaintiffs’ bar changes direction in ongoing asbestos litigation, attorney Stephen Hoke suggests.

“As if cosmetic talc defendants did not have enough to contemplate with ovarian cancer claims, they are also subject to...

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