Asbestos, Talc, and Ovarian Cancer: Asbestos Court Decisions

Decisions in our case-law library that involve ovarian cancer: 5 cases, by state. Each line gives the exposure the court described, or else what it decided. For the topic itself, see Asbestos, Talc, and Ovarian Cancer.

Georgia

• Johnson & Johnson v. Shiver (2021). The Georgia Court of Appeals reversed the four trial courts' denials of Johnson & Johnson's motions to dismiss, ruling for J&J and requiring dismissal of the estates' complaints without prejudice.
• Hanson v. Colgate-Palmolive Co. (2018). The federal district court excluded the causation and contamination opinions of plaintiff Hanson's experts Gordon, Kradin and Moline and most of Webber's, and allowed the defense experts Sanchez, Mossman and Moolgavkar to testify, a ruling favoring Colgate-Palmolive.
• Hanson v. Colgate-Palmolive Company (2018). The district court granted Colgate-Palmolive's motions for summary judgment and partial summary judgment on punitive damages, entering judgment against Douglas Hanson on all claims because he had no evidence that his late wife was exposed to asbestos in Cashmere Bouquet talc, or at what level.

Missouri

• Ingham v. Johnson & Johnson (Eastern District, 2nd Division, 2020). The court reversed the judgment against Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies on two out-of-state plaintiffs' claims and against Johnson & Johnson on all seventeen out-of-state plaintiffs' claims for lack of personal jurisdiction, rejected the defendants' other challenges, and entered a reduced judgment of $500 million compensatory and $900 million punitive against JJCI and $125 million compensatory and $715,909,091 punitive against J&J.

New York

• Bernard v. Brookfield Prop. Corp. (2010). The court granted defendant Ruderman's motion to dismiss the complaint and cross claims against it, without prejudice to recommencement, denied its premature summary judgment request, and denied Colgate's cross motion to treat its late notice of claim as timely served.