J&J, Talc MDL Plaintiff Spar Over Choice Of Law, Statute Of Limitations

(July 13, 2021, 2:30 PM EDT) -- TRENTON, N.J. — Two Johnson & Johnson entities misstate the governing law and ignore allegations that a plaintiff could not discover the cause of her disease because the companies spent decades hiding the ovarian cancer-talc link while touting the safety of their products, a plaintiff argues in a July 9 opposition brief after the defendants told the New Jersey federal court that the bellwether plaintiffs largely filed their claims outside the relevant statute of limitations despite intense media and advertising attention on claims that asbestos-tainted talc could cause ovarian cancer....

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