New York ¨C Johnson & Johnson created a plan last year to limit the financial bleeding from billions of dollars in jury awards to plaintiffs who alleged the company¡¯s Baby Powder and other talc products caused deadly cancers.
The health care and consumer-goods giant assigned more than 30 staffers to ¡°Project Plato.¡± In a memo on the project in July, a company lawyer warned the team: Tell no one, not even your spouse.
¡°It is critical that any activities related to Project Plato, including the mere fact the project exists, be kept in strict confidence,¡± Chris Andrew, a J&J lawyer, wrote in an internal memo reviewed by Reuters.
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