When attorney Ted Meadows first heard about a 2013 verdict finding Johnson & Johnson negligent for a woman’s ovarian cancer, he “put the word out” that he wanted to start filing lawsuits over talcum powder. Although the jury didn’t award damages, its decision on liability caught his attention. The first person to call him was R. Allen Smith, the plaintiffs lawyer who got the verdict.
For more than 30 years, medical researchers had studied whether there was a link between talcum powder use in the genital area and ovarian cancer. The answer? It depended on whom you asked.
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