{"id":191748,"date":"2025-10-11T01:18:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T01:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/191748\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T01:18:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T01:18:24","slug":"jj-must-pay-record-966-million-in-talc-baby-powder-cancer-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/191748\/","title":{"rendered":"J&#038;J Must Pay Record $966 Million in Talc Baby Powder Cancer Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/JNJ:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Johnson &amp; Johnson<\/a> was told by a California jury to pay $966 million to the family of a deceased woman who blamed her cancer on life-long use of the company\u2019s baby powder in the largest verdict for a single user in the 15-year litigation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The Los Angeles state court jury late Monday found J&amp;J liable for Mae Moore\u2019s mesothelioma \u2014 a cancer tied to asbestos exposure \u2014 and awarded her $16 million in compensatory damages and $950 million in punitive damages. Moore died in 2021 at age 88. The award will go to her family, who alleged J&amp;J hid the health risks of its iconic powder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Johnson &amp; Johnson was told by a California jury to pay $966 million to the family of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[84,776,847,84010,80,102,2960,5941,99,14590,2255,2173,56,54,55,658],"class_list":{"0":"post-191748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-cancer","11":"tag-erik-haas","12":"tag-government","13":"tag-health","14":"tag-healthcare","15":"tag-johnson-johnson","16":"tag-los-angeles","17":"tag-missouri","18":"tag-new-jersey","19":"tag-supreme-court","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-unitedkingdom","23":"tag-women"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}