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The world s lar stanley cup gest manufacturer of health care products has agreed to resolve an investigation by dozens of states into claims that the company misled consumers about the safety of its talc baby powder.Johnson Johnson has reached a tentative agreement with 43 states to pay around $700 million after a decade-long legal fight to resolve claims that the company s talc-based products allegedly caused cancer. JJ Chief Financial Officer Joseph Wolk confirmed the settlement in an interview withthe Wall Street Journal, saying it was an important step to finally put the matter behind us. SEE MORE: JJ to end sale stanley cup s of baby powder with talcJJ has twice tried to use bankruptcy courts as a way to limit its liability. The company proposed last yearto pay nearly $9 billion to settlemore than 52,000 personal injury lawsuits, many of which were filed by women who developed ovarian ca stanley cup ncer after using the company s baby powder.However, that proposal was ultimately rejected by a bankruptcy court, and now many of those lawsuits are slated to go to trial later this year. Some analysts project they could cost the company upwards of $15 billion.JJ maintains that its talc-based bab Vlxp My heart aches : Stephen tWitch Boss wife opens up about loss
KENOSHA 鈥?Jacob Blake s attorneys filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the yeezy Kenosha police officer who shot him seven times in the back last summer, leading to massive protests and unrest in Wisconsin and across the country.The Kenosha County District Attorney, Michael Graveley, declinedto file criminal charges against the officer, Rusten Sheskey, last January, seven months after the shooting.Blake was sent to the hosp airmax ital, paralyzed from the waist down. He remains in recovery.Sheskey was responding to a domestic call last August when he says he thought Blake was reaching for a knife, and c air max ould harm a child. That s when Sheskey opened fire, hitting Blake seven times in the back. @rellovejones, @money_mike_la via attorney Ben Crump Jacob Blake provides update in video from hospital bed Blake and his legal team argue in the lawsuit that Sheskey used excessive force. Blake is represented by civil rights attorney Ben Crump, attorney Patrick A. Salvi II of Salvi Schostok and Pritchard, and attorney BIvory LaMarr of The LaMarr Firm, PLLC.Kenosha s City Administrator, John W. Morrissey, issued the following statement: The incident has been thoro |
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