Johnson & Johnson Escapes Neutrogena Sunscreen Suit, for Now

A woman alleging Neutrogena sunscreens caused her lymphoblastic leukemia didn’t adequately allege the sunscreens she used contained the carcinogen benzene, a federal judge said.

The US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia dismissed the suit against Johnson & Johnson and Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. Tuesday because Debra Cascio’s reliance on a voluntary recall notice and a citizen petition following an independent testing lab’s report didn’t establish Cascio’s sunscreen batches contained benzene. Cascio brought claims for product liability, negligence, and misrepresentation, among others.

“For starters, a recall of a product is not evidence of a defect,” Judge Thomas ...