Controversies

Company response

• Denial — Johnson & Johnson and Janssen

  In a statement Monday, a spokesperson for Johnson & Johnson and Janssen said the settlement is not an "admission of liability or wrongdoing" by the company.

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• The companies are accused of downplaying or failing to mention the risks of addiction associated with opioid use in West Virginia while overstating the prescription drugs' benefits.

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• Denial — Johnson & Johnson

  A Monday morning news release from Johnson & Johnson said it was admitting no wrongdoing and it stands by the way it marketed and promoted its opioid medications, calling it “appropriate and responsible.”

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• The state sued Janssen, Teva and Allergan Finance LLC for allegedly making marketing misrepresentations and omissions that substantially contributed to the opioid epidemic and that the companies failed to monitor for and guard against diversion of their drugs.

• A Monday morning news release from Johnson & Johnson said it was admitting no wrongdoing and it stands by the way it marketed and promoted its opioid medications, calling it “appropriate and responsible.”

• The state of West Virginia has agreed to a $99 million settlement with Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceutical removing the company from the trial that entered its third week in a Charleston courtroom Monday.

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• Johnson & Johnson has filed a lawsuit against drug distributors and a pharmacy seeking to stop the sale of counterfeit versions of its HIV drugs

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• The drugs at issue include Symtuza, a multi-drug combination treatment, as well as Prezcobix, Prezista and Edurant.

• In a complaint filed April 7 and made public on Tuesday, J&J said it had learned of widespread counterfeiting through complaints from patients who received the wrong pills in their prescription bottle, and from the voluntary return of hundreds of bottles of counterfeit drugs from one of the defendants, distributor ProPharma Distribution LLC.

• Johnson & Johnson has filed a lawsuit against drug distributors and a pharmacy seeking to stop the sale of counterfeit versions of its HIV drugs, months after a similar case brought by Gilead Sciences Inc.

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• Recall — Johnson & Johnson International c/o European Logistics Centre

  对合成可吸收性外科缝线PDS II Polydioxanone Monofilament Synthetic Absorbable Suture主动召回的公告

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• 2月28日，国家药品监督管理局网站发布了强生国际欧洲物流中心Johnson & Johnson International c/o European Logistics Centre对合成可吸收性外科缝线PDS II Polydioxanone Monofilament Synthetic Absorbable Suture主动召回的公告。

• 由于涉及特定型号、特定批次产品，存在部分缝线产品因针线连接处存在裂纹的问题

• 日前，强生（上海）医疗器材有限公司报告

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• J&J did not admit liability or wrongdoing in agreeing to settle.

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• The National Council of Negro Women is the latest organization to take aim at one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, Johnson & Johnson. On behalf of the council, attorney and his team have filed a lawsuit alleging that the pharmaceutical endangered countless people by marketing "cancerous" talcum powder products directly to Black women.

• As time went on and information regarding the dangers of talcum became more readily available, Johnson & Johnson allegedly considered recruiting and Aretha Franklin to market products to Black consumers on their behalf.

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• The recalled products were named in a May reportby Valisure, an independent testing lab in New Haven, Connecticut, for having high levels of benzene in at least some batches.

• The lawsuit, filed by Johanna Dominguez and Sharron Meijer in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, seeks an injunction and damages on behalf of consumers who purchased the affected products.

• The affected products include the Aveeno Protect + Refresh aerosol sunscreen and four Neutrogena sunscreens: Beach Defense aerosol sunscreen, CoolDry Sport aerosol sunscreen, Invisible Daily Defense aerosol sunscreen and UltraSheer aerosol sunscreen.

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• the plaintiffs alleged that the new Attune system in fact had higher failure rates of the tibial baseplate and frequently require knee revision surgeries to remove and replace the defective device

• On Friday, a case was filed in the Southern District of Mississippi. The case was filed by a plaintiff family against DePuy Orthopedics Inc. and Johnson & Johnson as the parent company.

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• The lawsuit, which seeks civil penalties and damages, was filed in King County Superior Court. It says the company violated the state’s Consumer Protection Act, was negligent and a public nuisance.

• SEATTLE — Washington state sued Johnson & Johnson on Thursday, claiming the company was negligent when it used deceptive marketing to say the drugs were effective for treating pain and were unlikely to cause addiction.

• By fueling the opioid epidemic with deceptive marketing to both doctors and the public, the lawsuit says, Johnson and & Johnson is responsible for the deaths of Washingtonians from opioids and the devastation of families touched by addiction.

Company response

• Denial — Johnson & Johnson and its specialty corporations

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• The attorney general’s lawsuit claimed Johnson & Johnson, along with subsidiaries Ethicon Inc. and Ethicon US LLC, misrepresented the effectiveness, properties, risks and safety history of the surgical-mesh products in marketing and educational materials provided to patients and doctors, in personal meetings and in published medical articles.

Company response

• Denial — Johnson & Johnson

  We remain confident that our talc is safe, asbestos free, and does not cause cancer.

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• A Missouri appeals court on Tuesday rejected Johnson & Johnson's bid to throw out a jury verdict in favor of women who blamed their ovarian cancer on its baby powder and other talc products, but reduced damages by more than half to $2.12 billion.

• We remain confident that our talc is safe, asbestos free, and does not cause cancer.

• But it said the plaintiffs proved that J&J and an affiliate concealed for decades that its talc products contained asbestos, "worked tirelessly" to ensure that testing protocols would not detect asbestos in all talc samples, and published articles downplaying the safety hazards of talc.

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• The lawsuit was filed on Thursday in the Superior Court of New Jersey in Essex County.

• Warren resident and former Johnson & Johnson executive Gina Bilotti filed a lawsuit against her former employer alleging sex and gender discrimination after she says she endured persistent verbal abuse from her male supervisors before her career was sabotaged.

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• Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum announced Friday a $5.5 million settlement with Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary Ethicon, Inc. for deceptive marketing of transvaginal surgical mesh devices.

• The settlement has been filed and requires court approval to become final.

Company response

• Recall — Johnson & Johnson

  出于充分谨慎的考虑，我们决定在美国主动召回单一批次的强生婴儿爽身粉。

• Investigation — Johnson & Johnson

  同时，我们在对此事件进行严谨、彻底的调查，我们正与美国食品药品监督管理局共同确认此次检测的样品的完整性以及此次检测结果的准确性。

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• 强生公司表示，此次自愿召回仅限于2018年在美国生产和运输的一批强生婴儿爽身粉。

• 出于充分谨慎的考虑，我们决定在美国主动召回单一批次的强生婴儿爽身粉。

• 强生公司在一次电话会议上说，它在10月17日收到了FDA的一份报告，提醒公司注意石棉的发现。

Company response

• Recall — Johnson & Johnson

  today's announcement of a recall by Johnson & Johnson of more than 30,000 bottles of its Baby Powder sold in 2018

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• A multistate investigation found the company had misrepresented the safety of transvaginal surgical mesh devices the companies sold, according to the release.

• A total of $1.6 million will be deposited into Idaho’s Consumer Protection Fund as a result of a settlement Idaho’s attorney general reached in a lawsuit against medical and pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson.

• The company did not tell consumers or surgeons about the possibility of severe medical complications possible after a device had been implanted.

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• Johnson & Johnson became the fourth drugmaker to avoid going to trial in the first federal opioids case, announcing Tuesday that it had reached a $20.4 million agreement to settle claims raised by two Ohio counties.

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• at least 3,700 Oregon women had these devices implanted without J&J providing sufficient information to allow them to adequately weigh the risks and benefits of the full range of treatment options.

• filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary Ethicon, Inc., alleging deceptive marketing of transvaginal surgical mesh devices to women in Oregon by failing to disclose the dangerous complications sometimes arising from the devices.

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• Jacqueline Becker, an Ahualoa horsewoman diagnosed with mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer caused by asbestos, is suing Johnson & Johnson, claiming her illness was caused by its talc-based baby powder, which FDA testing found to contain asbestos.