Dean Omar Branham Shirley Partner Benjamin Adams was interviewed by Good Day Oregon on Fox 12 among other Portland media outlets, following a verdict by an Oregon jury which awarded the firm’s client $260 million in a suit against Johnson & Johnson.

The suit alleged that the pharmaceutical company knew its baby powder contained asbestos for decades but only took it off shelves in recent years.

“They did a lot of things to try to hide it from the FDA and from regulators. They used certain testing methods to test the talc that they knew couldn’t detect the asbestos at certain levels. They concealed their records from the FDA, and they, in fact, gave the FDA false information. They said that one of their testing experts, Dr Hutchinson, never found asbestos in the talc when they had his report from 1972 finding it in the talc,” Mr. Adams told Fox.