{"id":65225,"date":"2025-10-07T16:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T16:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/65225\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T16:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T16:06:08","slug":"johnson-johnson-ordered-to-pay-966-million-after-jury-finds-company-liable-in-talc-cancer-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/65225\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $966 million after jury finds company liable in talc cancer case"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this photo illustration, a container of Johnson’s baby powder made by Johnson and Johnson sits on a table in San Francisco, California.<\/p>\n

Justin Sullivan | Getty Images<\/p>\n

A Los Angeles jury late on Monday ordered Johnson & Johnson<\/a> to pay $966 million to the family of a woman who died from mesothelioma, finding the company liable in the latest lawsuit alleging its baby powder products cause cancer.<\/p>\n

The family of Mae Moore, who died in 2021, sued the company the same year, claiming Johnson & Johnson’s talc baby powder products contained asbestos fibers that caused her rare cancer. The jury ordered the company to pay $16 million in compensatory damages and $950 million in punitive damages, according to court filings.<\/p>\n

The verdict could be reduced on appeal as the U.S. Supreme Court has found that punitive damages should generally be no more than nine times compensatory damages.<\/p>\n

Representatives for Johnson & Johnson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

The company has said its products are safe, do not contain asbestos, and do not cause cancer. J&J stopped selling talc-based baby powder in the U.S. in 2020, switching to a cornstarch product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this photo illustration, a container of Johnson’s baby powder made by Johnson and Johnson sits on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2691,72,122,103,397,2690,396,61,60,14174,20233,1650],"class_list":["post-65225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-biotech-and-pharmaceuticals","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-health-care-industry","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-johnson-johnson","tag-lawsuits","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}