A Los Angeles jury awarded $40 million on Friday to two women who claimed that talcum powder made by Johnson & Johnson caused their ovarian cancer.<\/p>\n
The giant health care company 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 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.\u201d<\/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 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":347747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253,2558,2413,3],"class_list":["post-347746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-latest-headlines","tag-national-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347746","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=347746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}