EWJ Legal Attorneys Successfully Fight Back Against Johnson & Johnson’s Efforts to Keep our Client’s Talc Case Out of Philadelphia Court

Last week, U.S. District Judge Mark Kearney of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania agreed with arguments made by our Nancy Winkler and Todd Schoenhaus and rejected Johnson & Johnson’s attempts to move our client’s Talc-related lawsuit to a federal bankruptcy court in Delaware.

With Judge Kearney’s ruling, our client’s case will head back to state court in Philadelphia. This means that the case will almost certainly be the first talc-related case to be tried before a Philadelphia jury.

In the lawsuit, our client Ellen Kleiner alleges that her ovarian cancer was caused by the talc in Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder.

Nancy told The Legal Intelligencer that she hopes that “other judges in the Eastern District and across the country follow Judge Kearney and numerous other judges who have remanded cases, and remand the cases of these brave women to state court so their cases can be tried without delay.”

You can read more about the firm’s successful efforts.

If you or someone you know has developed ovarian cancer as a result of using talc powder, please visit this site.

With approximately 40 years of legal experience and recoveries totaling over $500 million, Fredric S. Eisenberg is an instrumental part of Eisenberg Winkler Jeck Schwartz Schoenhaus & Sherry. In a recent 12-month period alone, Fred obtained two settlements totaling over $100 million, including what is believed to be one of the largest settlements of its kind in the history of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. His extensive experience and insight into personal injury law make him a trusted advocate to whom other lawyers routinely refer their more complicated cases. Fred’s practice focuses on complex, catastrophic cases on behalf of severely injured plaintiffs. Over the years, he has successfully handled cases involving product liability and automobile defects, medical malpractice, construction site and workplace accidents, and commercial vehicle/trucking accident cases.