A Johnson & Johnson subsidiary filed a second fraud lawsuit against three plaintiffs’ experts who authored a 2020 report linking its talcum powder products to mesothelioma.
The lawsuit, filed on Friday in the District of New Jersey, names Drs. Theresa Emory, Richard Kradin and John Maddox, who all have testified in dozens of talc trials over the years. Emory and Maddox are pathologists affiliated with Peninsula Pathology Associates in Newport News, Virginia, while Kradin is a pulmonologist and pathologist who lives in New Hampshire.
