A New Jersey appeals court on Tuesday threw out a $223.8 million verdict against Johnson & Johnson that a jury had awarded to four plaintiffs who claimed they had developed cancer from being exposed to asbestos in the company's talc powder products.
In reversing the verdict and ordering a new trial, a three-judge panel of the appeals court found that the trial court failed to fulfill its "gatekeeping role" of assessing whether the plaintiffs' experts based their testimony on sound science. Moline, who has testified for plaintiffs in more than 200 talc cancer cases, has argued that the lawsuit is an effort to "intimidate" scientific experts and prevent them from testifying against the company.
J&J has recently won reversals of some cases that went against it, including of a $117 million verdict in the same New Jersey appeals court and a $120 million verdict in New York.
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