The jury ruled in favor of Emory Hernandez Valadez who filed suit against J&J, seeking monetary damages, saying he developed mesothelioma, a deadly cancer, in the tissue around his heart as a result of heavy exposure to the company’s talc since childhood.
The jury ruled in favor of Emory Hernandez Valadez, who filed suit last year in California state court in Oakland against J&J, seeking monetary damages. Hernandez, 24, has said he developed mesothelioma, a deadly cancer, in the tissue around his heart as a result of heavy exposure to the company’s talc since childhood. The six-week trial was the first over talc that New Brunswick, New Jersey-based J&J has faced in almost two years.
In closing arguments to the jury on July 10, J&J’s lawyers said there was no evidence either linking Hernandez’s kind of mesolthelioma to asbestos or proving that Hernandez was ever exposed to tainted talc. Hernandez’s lawyers during closing arguments accused J&J of a “despicable” decades-long coverup of asbestos contamination.
Most litigation has been halted during bankruptcy proceedings, but US Chief Bankruptcy Judge Michael Kaplan, who is overseeing LTL’s Chapter 11, let Hernandez’s trial proceed because he is expected to live only a short time.
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