NEW YORK — A group of cancer victims sued Johnson & Johnson JNJ.N on Wednesday, implicating the healthcare business of devoting scams through duplicated and continued efforts to usage a shell business’s personalbankruptcy to willpower 10s of thousands of suits declaring its talc items consistedof asbestos and triggered cancer.
Five complainants who lookfor to represent over 50,000 individuals who have sued J&J over its talc items submitted the proposed class action in New Jersey federal court.
They declare that J&J’s insolvency technique put billions of dollars out of the reach of complainants in an effort to “hinder, hold-up, and defraud these ladies and avoid them from ever having their day in court.”
“Johnson & Johnson is playing a dark videogame of chess with this nation’s monetary and judicial systems,” stated Mike Papantonio, an lawyer for the cancer plaintiffs.
J&J’s aroundtheworld vice president of lawsuits, Erik Haas, stated the claim was a “Hail Mary pass” by complainants’ attorneys who wear’t desire their customers to vote on the business’s mostcurrent proposed personalbankruptcy settlement.
“Why are they so desperate to stop the vote?” Haas stated. “Our focus hasactually been and will stay reaching a complete, reasonable and last resolution of this lawsuits, and permitting the plaintiffs to speak for themselves.”
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