TORRANCE – An expert witness for plaintiff Carolyn Weirick on Monday told attorneys that baby powder testing by the Food and Drug Administration was not sensitive enough to detect asbestos, while attorneys for Johnson & Johnson portrayed the witness as too dependent on a single source of information.
TORRANCE – In a trial to decide if a Johnson & Johnson product caused a woman’s mesothelioma, the company's attorneys on Tuesday attempted to undercut the testimony of a plaintiff expert witness saying she had shaped her opinions on cosmetic talc powder only after becoming a paid witness.
TORRANCE – After John Hopkins, Johnson & Johnson’s corporate spokesman, watched a television commercial from the company exhibited in a courtroom showing a child sprinkling herself with baby powder, he disagreed with a plaintiff attorney that the powder was toxic.
