California Briefing Wraps On Challenge To Experts, $29M Asbestos-Talc Verdict

Mealey's (January 26, 2021, 9:40 AM EST) -- LOS ANGELES — A woman awarded $29 million told a California appeals court that her expert laid the groundwork for admission of testing of historical samples of talc for asbestos and that causation was adequately proven.  But in a Dec. 21 reply, Johnson & Johnson entities argued that absent a chain of custody, there is no way to know whether or how much asbestos contamination may have occurred during decades of storage and that there was no way to quantify the potential exposure....