A $45 million verdict towards Johnson & Johnson is the primary for a mesothelioma sufferer since two failed talc bankruptcies final 12 months—and a groundbreaking win for Dallas-based Dean Omar Branham Shirley.
On Friday, a jury in Chicago’s Prepare dinner County Circuit Courtroom awarded compensatory damages to the household of Theresa Garcia, a mom of six children who died in 2020 after lifelong use of Johnson & Johnson’s child powder and different merchandise. Their resolution got here out on the identical day that jurors in Florida’s Sarasota County Circuit Courtroom handed Johnson & Johnson a defense win within the first post-bankruptcy verdict to come back out of an ovarian most cancers case.
