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Speaker 1: Now it's time for our daily Bloomberg Law Brief, exploring

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Speaker 1: dot org. Today, Bloomberg Law host June Grasso and Michael

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Speaker 1: Best discussed new evidence that Johnson and Johnson knew about

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Speaker 1: asbestos risks and its talcum powder as early as the

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventies. That adds another dimension to claims against J

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Speaker 1: and J as it defends itself for more than five

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Speaker 1: thousand suits blaming its products for causing ovarian cancer in women.

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Speaker 1: They speak to Bloomberg News legal reporter Jeff Feely. Jeff,

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Speaker 1: tell us what you have discovered in connection with some

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Speaker 1: of the existing cases in state court in St. Louis.

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Speaker 1: There were documents on sealed earlier this month that showed

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Speaker 1: that Johnson and Johnson news stretching back to the nineteen seventies,

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Speaker 1: that there were trace amounts of asbestos in the talc

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Speaker 1: used and it's davy powder and other Talcoum powder products.

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Speaker 1: The company has consistently maintained that there's no asbestos in

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Speaker 1: its baby powder or Town products and never has been

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Speaker 1: and never will be. Um this could be a problem

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Speaker 1: for Jane Jay going forward. This opens up a whole

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Speaker 1: new avenue of cases tied to the to the tow claims. Well, so, Jeff,

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Speaker 1: what what exactly is it We're going to see happen

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Speaker 1: in court now with these documents coming out? Well, the

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Speaker 1: Piloff lawyers are going to take these documents and they're

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Speaker 1: gonna have to get the judge to sign off on

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Speaker 1: using them as evidence, but they're gonna show they're going

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Speaker 1: to use them as evidence to basically impeach Johnson and Johnson.

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Speaker 1: When they come up and say our baby powder is

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Speaker 1: safe and asbestos free, they're gonna pull out these documents.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna say, you know, well, didn't you guys know

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Speaker 1: back in the nineties seventies that they were your people

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Speaker 1: internal documents, Your own people were talking about trace amounts

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Speaker 1: of asbestos in the Talcolum powder used um in your

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Speaker 1: baby power or and it might point out that some

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Speaker 1: of that Talcoulm powder comes from minds that j and

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Speaker 1: j you owned, not just you know us as vendors,

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Speaker 1: they own the minds where the testing on the tap

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Speaker 1: was turning up traces of asbestos and hopes of you know,

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Speaker 1: and hopes of convincing the jury that this, you know,

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Speaker 1: the top and powder is and unreasonably dangerous product, and

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Speaker 1: that J and Jane knew. So, Jeff, how has J

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Speaker 1: and j been doing in the in the trial so far?

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Speaker 1: They have lost five out of six trials and the

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Speaker 1: damage amounts are increasing. The last one in California generated

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Speaker 1: a four and seventeen million dollar birthdate against Johnson and Johnson.

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Speaker 1: That is Bloomberg News legal reporter Jeff Feely speaking to

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Speaker 1: in damages for mishandling the estate of former American Airlines

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Speaker 1: executive Max Hooper. The ruling went to Joe Hooper and

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Speaker 1: her two step children, who claimed the bank had mismanaged

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Speaker 1: the administration of her late husband's estate. However, the verdict

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Speaker 1: is likely to be knocked down on appeal. And that's

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