Instructions Please access the following video and work your way through the case study on Johnson & Johnson Case Study: The Johnson & Johnson EASE STUY LR LT Talcum Powder Cases e . o S This case study looks at a California case brought = - against Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary, Johnson & Johnson Consumer, Inc. The lawsuit is based on allegations that genital application of talcum powder causes ovarian cancer. Please type your answers to the following and submit the word document to your professor in Brightspace. Proper Grammar, formatting and source citations or research you have used to support your answers are expected. A college level paper will be at least 2-3 pages of discussion with 3 source citations that you have researched in support of your research. Discuss: What are the elements needed to prove in court? Explain specifically General Causation, Specific Causation and Pathology. You be the Judge: Is this a frivilous case? Define "damages" in a court of law. What should the damages be? Reflection: Will awards of damages in cases like this stop companies from creating products that have negative health effects? STAGES OF OVARIAN CANCER LS A il babypowder.consumerjusticenowtalc.com J&J to pay $2.1 Billion to Baby Powder Sign up Victims B Johnson Johnson Told to Pa... 48.72 k8) \fJohnson & Johnson called the verdict \"the product of a fundamentally unfair process\" that combined 22 women with few connections to Missouri into a single group of plaintiffs in St. Louis. The company \"remains confident that its products do not contain asbestos and do not cause ovarian cancer and intends to pursue all available appellate remedies,\" it said in a statement. The company has said concerns about tale's being linked to cancer are based on inconclusive research. Asbestos is a carcinogen that sometimes appears in natural talc but was stripped from commercial tale products in the 1970s, according to the American Cancer Society. And according to the National Cancer Institute, claims that tale nsed for feminine hygiene purposes can be absorbed by the reproductive system and cause inflammation in the ovaries are not supported by \"the weight of evidence.\" Plaintiffs in talc cases have approached litigation in smaller groups instead of suing Johnson & Johnson en masse. The risky strategy allows earlier plaintiffs to send signals about legal tactics and their award amounts to women who bring cases later. Suing in clusters also maximizes the emotional effect of the women's stories on juries, Mr. Lanier said. \"It's easier to get justice in small groups,\" he said. \"In small groups, people have names, but in large groups, they're numbers.\" The first tale trial was in 2013 in Federal District Court in South Dakota. A jury found Johnson & Johnson negligent but did not award damages to the plaintiff. Several other cases have involved sizable damages, including a $417 million verdict reached by jurors in Los Angelez County Superior Court last year. The plaintiff in the Los Angeles case has since died, and the verdict was overturned and a new trial granted. Johnson & Johnson, which has sucecessfully appealed a number of talc cases, said in its statement on Thursday that \"the multiple errors present in this trial were worse than those in the prior trials which have been reversed.\" Follow Tiffany Hsu on Twitter: @tiffkchsu. A version of this article appears in print on July 13, 2018, Section B, Page 6 of the New York edition with the headline: Jury Awards $4.7 Billion In Talcum Powder Case