J&J Still Battling Talc Powder Cancer Claims

Johnson & Johnson has been hit with numerous lawsuits by victims of mesothelioma, a rare asbestos-related cancer that tends to show symptoms years after exposure. The controversy over J&J baby powder is not new—rather, it’s decades old.  In the early 1970s, a company official posed the question: If J&J Baby Powder contained 1 percent asbestos,



Infant Death Results in Lawsuit Against West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources

Losing a child is always hard, especially when the death could have been prevented. One father who lost a child in such a manner recently decided to file a wrongful death lawsuit against those he feels are responsible for his child’s untimely death, the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. Eric Gillispie lost his three-month-old daughter, Raynna Rae Boggs, in May 2010 when the child’s mother “passed out on top of her while under the influence of drugs and alcohol at her home in South Charleston.”