Meritless Costs $5.5 Billion These Days
Johnson & Johnson calls 76,000 ovarian cancer claims meritless while writing a $5.5 billion check to make them disappear.
Source article: Johnson & Johnson pays $5.5 billion to settle talc cancer lawsuits.
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- Topic tags
- crime, law and justice, health treatment and procedure, consumer goods, economy, business and finance, law
- Primary entities
- Johnson & Johnson, Erik Haas, Chris Seeger
- Themes
- product liability, mass tort settlement, corporate accountability
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- human_life_and_dignity, Accountability of power, Truthfulness