MDL Judge Reviews Expert Evidence Over Talc's Ties to Ovarian Cancer
In addressing the reliability of plaintiffs' experts, lawyers on both sides of the multidistrict litigation in New Jersey have cited rulings in prior cases over Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder products.
July 24, 2019 at 06:09 PM
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The original version of this story was published on New Jersey Law Journal
In trials across the country, juries have answered the scientific question: Did Johnson & Johnson's baby powder cause women to get ovarian cancer?
Lawyers on both sides of the lawsuits have enlisted an army of experts to help jurors answer that question, but, so far, rulings addressing the admissibility of their opinions have been largely limited to state courts in Missouri, California, New Jersey and Georgia. Those rulings, however, appeared in briefs filed before U.S. District Judge Freda Wolfson ahead of a hearing this week featuring testimony from eight of the 39 expert witnesses designated for the first trials in the multidistrict litigation over Johnson & Johnson's baby powder. That MDL now totals more than 12,600 lawsuits.
“Those courts found the evidence was reliable, and that the experts in those cases followed an appropriate methodology, and that's really the inquiry here,” said Leigh O'Dell, co-lead plaintiffs' counsel in the MDL in New Jersey.
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