A South Carolina jury has ordered former talc supplier Whittaker, Clark & Daniels to pay $29.14 million to a woman who said she developed mesothelioma from being exposed to asbestos-tainted talc in cosmetic products.
A lawyer for Whittaker declined to comment, and Italy-based IMI Fabi did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Whittaker is no longer in business, and its corporate successor is a U.S. arm of Germany-based chemical company Brenntag SE, according to court records.
Plant, now 36, sued the companies last year. She said she developed mesothelioma, a deadly cancer, at age 35 after using a variety of talc products since early childhood that contained asbestos. Leading talc product maker Johnson & Johnson had also been a defendant in the case but was not part of the trial because it transferred its talc liabilities to a subsidiary that it placed in bankruptcy. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in January
that bankruptcy strategy, and Dean said she hoped Plant would have a chance to take the company to trial as well.of a $16 million verdict in a similar cosmetic talc case against it in New York. The case is Plant v. Avon Products Inc., et al., South Carolina Court of Common Pleas in Richland County, No. 2022CP4001265.For Whittaker: Stephanie Flynn of Fox Rothschild
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