A Los Angeles jury weighing claims by a retired computer salesman that Johnson & Johnson’s iconic baby powder is laced with cancer-causing asbestos failed to reach a verdict, resulting in a mistrial.
Kirk Von Salzen said J&J was responsible for causing his mesothelioma, a cancer linked to asbestos exposure. He sought more than $12 million in damages. The jury deliberated for several days before a state judge decided the panel was hopelessly deadlocked.
The mistrial is the second straight in lawsuits attempting to link the company’s talc products to cancer. A Pasadena, California, jury also deadlocked a little over a week ago, in a lawsuit brought by a school counselor who blamed her mesothelioma on asbestos in J&J talc.
In the last case to end conclusively, a jury in Missouri awarded $4.69 billion in July to more than 20 women with ovarian cancer who alleged asbestos in the company’s baby powder and Shower to Shower products caused their illnesses.
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