Another Example Of A Hair Straightener Cancer Lawsuit Being Filed
Women with no family history of cancer may have developed uterine cancer from using hair straightener
Sunday, March 19, 2023 - Thousands of women are shocked when becoming aware that chemical hair straightener could be responsible for giving them uterine, breast, ovarian, and other types of cancer of the female reproductive system. A recent study published by the National Institute of Health details that women who chemically straighten their hair four or more times per year are more than twice as likely to develop cancer or do damage to the endometrium, the lining of the uterus. The study also points out to no surprise that most of the individuals who use chemical hair straighteners are Black women. Loreal, Revlon, and other manufacturers of hair relaxers targeted Black women in their television advertising and commercials. They also may have covered up their knowledge of the damage those dangerous chemicals could do to a user's health. Chemical hair straightener lawsuits allege that Loreal, Revlon, and others either knew or had a responsibility to know about the potential health risks of using hair relaxers and failed to inform consumers.
For example 46-year-old Alicia Smith of Euclid recently filed a chemical hair relaxer cancer lawsuit against Loreal. "Ms. Euclid has no family history of cancer and was diagnosed with hair relaxer uterine cancer in 2019 after using hair straightening products since the age of 13, according to Fox8.com. Euclid's attorney Ashlie Sletvold, told Fox 8, " Given that the dangers associated with the use of hair relaxers were not disclosed by the companies, it has come as a shock to people from coast to coast who have used these products from childhood to adolescents and many of them for decades." Attorney Sletvold also correctly pointed out what many people are shocked to learn. Cosmetic products like hair relaxers, deodorants, soaps, and powders in makeup are not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, but instead, companies are left on their own to make sure their products are safe. All too often, however, settling lawsuits claiming personal injury from using their products is just a cost of doing business and the companies put corporate profits ahead of consumer health. "Sletvold says under current federal laws governing cosmetics like hair relaxers, companies can hide up to 20% of the ingredients. "So, you may see a list of ingredients on the side of the box, but some harmful ones may not be listed there because they're considered part of the fragrance or perfume that goes along with the product," Sletvold said," Fox8 reports.
More than 100 chemical hair straightener lawsuits from all around the country have been filed and organized into multidistrict litigation (MDL) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. MDL is a more efficient way of encouraging a settlement or proceeding to trial and weed out inflammatory or unqualified scientific witnesses from both sides. Only a handful of experts are expected to be allowed to testify when three or four bellwether trials begin, in about a year to 18 months. "Due to complex issues that are anticipated throughout the duration of the litigation and the multiple different defendant manufacturers of the products, as well as common questions of fact and law involved in each of the claims, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation decided in February to consolidate and centralize all hair relaxer lawsuits as part of an MDL," according to TheTelegraph.com>
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Lawyers for Hair Relaxer Cancer Lawsuits
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