Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay US$29M awarded in baby powder cancer case
Associated Press
Published:
March 14, 2019
Updated:
March 14, 2019 11:21 AM EDT
Containers of Johnson's baby powder made by Johnson and Johnson are displayed on a shelf on July 13, 2018 in San Francisco.Justin Sullivan / Getty Images
OAKLAND, Calif. — Johnson & Johnson must pay US$29 million to a woman who claimed its baby powder gave her terminal cancer, a California jury ruled Wednesday.
A Superior Court jury in Oakland found the world’s largest health care company mainly liable for Teresa Leavitt’s mesothelioma. The verdict said that the baby powder was a “substantial contributing factor” in her illness.
Her suit is one of many that link cancers to asbestos in Johnson & Johnson’s talc-based products and contend that the company concealed the health risk for decades.
Requests for comment from the New Jersey-based comment were not immediately answered.
Johnson & Johnson is facing some 13,000 similar lawsuits around the country.
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The company has insisted that its talcum-based products are demonstrably safe but it has lost a string of court cases.
Last year, a Los Angeles jury awarded $25.7 million to a woman who blamed her cancer on the powder.
A jury in Missouri last year awarded $4.69 million to 22 women.
Johnson & Johnson’s stock price dropped nearly 2% after hours on Wednesday before recovering to close at $139.41.
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Associated Press
Published:
March 14, 2019
Updated:
March 14, 2019 11:21 AM EDT
Containers of Johnson's baby powder made by Johnson and Johnson are displayed on a shelf on July 13, 2018 in San Francisco.Justin Sullivan / Getty Images
OAKLAND, Calif. — Johnson & Johnson must pay US$29 million to a woman who claimed its baby powder gave her terminal cancer, a California jury ruled Wednesday.
A Superior Court jury in Oakland found the world’s largest health care company mainly liable for Teresa Leavitt’s mesothelioma. The verdict said that the baby powder was a “substantial contributing factor” in her illness.
Her suit is one of many that link cancers to asbestos in Johnson & Johnson’s talc-based products and contend that the company concealed the health risk for decades.
Requests for comment from the New Jersey-based comment were not immediately answered.
Johnson & Johnson is facing some 13,000 similar lawsuits around the country.
Story continues below
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but your article continues below.
The company has insisted that its talcum-based products are demonstrably safe but it has lost a string of court cases.
Last year, a Los Angeles jury awarded $25.7 million to a woman who blamed her cancer on the powder.
A jury in Missouri last year awarded $4.69 million to 22 women.
Johnson & Johnson’s stock price dropped nearly 2% after hours on Wednesday before recovering to close at $139.41.
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