{"id":347143,"date":"2025-12-13T22:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T22:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/347143\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T22:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T22:05:09","slug":"jury-awards-40m-in-case-alleging-johnsons-baby-power-caused-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/347143\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury awards $40M in case alleging Johnson’s Baby Power caused cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Los Angeles jury awarded $40 million on Friday to two women who claimed that talcum powder made by Johnson & Johnson<\/a> caused their ovarian cancer.<\/p>\n

The giant health care company<\/a> said it would appeal the jury\u2019s liability verdict and compensatory damages.<\/p>\n

The verdict is the latest development in a longstanding legal battle over claims that talc in Johnson\u2019s Baby Powder and Shower to Shower body power was connected to ovarian cancer and mesothelioma, a cancer that strikes the lungs and other organs. Johnson & Johnson stopped selling<\/a> powder made with talc worldwide in 2023.<\/p>\n

In October, another California jury ordered J&J to pay $966 million to the family of a woman who died of mesothelioma, claiming she developed the cancer because the baby powder she used was contaminated with the carcinogen asbestos.<\/p>\n

In the latest case, the jury awarded $18 million to Monica Kent and $22 million to Deborah Schultz and her husband. \u201cThe only thing they did was be loyal to Johnson & Johnson as a customer for only 50 years,\u2019\u2019 said their attorney, Daniel Robinson of the Robinson Calcagnie law firm in Newport Beach, California. \u201cThat loyalty was a one-way street.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Erik Haas, J&J\u2019s worldwide vice president of litigation, said in a statement that the company had won \u201c16 of the 17 ovarian cancer cases it previously tried\u201d and expected to do so again upon appealing Friday\u2019s verdict.<\/p>\n

Haas called the jury\u2019s findings \u201cirreconcilable with the decades of independent scientific evaluations confirming that talc is safe, does not contain asbestos, and does not cause cancer.\u2019’<\/p>\n

Johnson & Johnson replaced the talc in its baby powder sold in most of North America with cornstarch in 2020 after sales declined. <\/p>\n

In April, a U.S. bankruptcy court judge denied J&J\u2019s plan to pay $9 billion<\/a> to settle ovarian cancer and other gynecological cancer litiation claims based on talc-related products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Los Angeles jury awarded $40 million on Friday to two women who claimed that talcum powder made…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4528,28,2356,687,173276,793,2918,18320,3130,152186,3031,36103],"class_list":["post-347143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-womens-health","tag-business","tag-california","tag-cancer","tag-daniel-robinson","tag-general-news","tag-johnson-johnson","tag-juries","tag-lawsuits","tag-local-news-for-apple","tag-los-angeles","tag-ovarian-cancer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}