Philip Boucher Hayes
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3,375 appearances
85 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 6 Aug
Philip Boucher Hayes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Last week, a decade-long court battle between global healthcare company Johnson & Johnson and tens of thousands of plaintiffs was settled in a New Jersey courtroom.
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The company has agreed to pay $5.5 billion to end around 76,000 claims which allege that its talcum powder products caused ovarian cancer.
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A landmark settlement with an eye-watering payout.
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But not the biggest class action suit that the world has seen.
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So to tell us all the details of the Johnson & Johnson case and go through some of the biggest collective lawsuits ever, I'm joined by Adam McGuire from our business desk.
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Good morning.
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Give us the background to the Johnson & Johnson case.
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Five and a half billion dollars is really rather a lot to pay for claims that you say are based on junk science.
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Did the court agree with that assessment?
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So why settle now?
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Is it maths?
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Is it a big bill now to avoid an even bigger bill down the line?
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Define class action lawsuit for me.
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Five and a half billion is an awful lot of money, but Johnson & Johnson's pre-tax profits were 26.8 billion.
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Oh, sorry, that was post-tax profits just last year.
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So it's not going to close the doors there.
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Talk to me about other cases, though, because there have been other settlements in excess of that figure.
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Exactly, yeah.
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How big was the most famous of these cases, the Hinkley-Erin Brockovich groundwater case?
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