New Brunswick — Johnson & Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky faced questions from plaintiffs’ lawyers over the timing of his sale of company stock, as he testified on Monday for the first time in a jury trial over allegations that the company’s Baby Powder causes cancer.
Gorsky told the jury that he had sold company shares in November 2018, two days after a Reuters reporter contacted the company and summarised in an e-mail her review of documents that showed J&J knew small amounts of asbestos had been found in its talc on occasion since 1971...
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