Dec. 5, 2025
Expert faces sharp cross-examination in Johnson & Johnson talc trial
In California's first talc bellwether trial, plaintiffs challenged Johnson & Johnson expert Brooke Howitt over her views on talc migration and cancer grading, prompting evidentiary strikes before closing arguments next week.
Johnson & Johnson's first witness in its defense against claims its talc causes cancer faced hours of scrutiny Thursday over her assertion that talc particles cannot migrate to the ovaries and her lone conclusion, compared to other pathologists, that a plaintiff's cancer was low grade rather than high grade.
After the plaintiffs rested their nearly three-week case Wednesday afternoon in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Stanford University pathologist Brooke Howitt re...
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