{"id":349173,"date":"2025-12-15T01:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T01:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/349173\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T01:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T01:07:09","slug":"jury-says-johnson-johnson-owes-40-million-to-2-cancer-patients-who-used-talcum-powders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/349173\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury Says Johnson & Johnson Owes $40 Million to 2 Cancer Patients Who Used Talcum Powders"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>FILE – Johnson’s baby powder on display at a market in Pittsburgh, Jan. 26, 2023. (AP Photo\/Gene J. PuskarFile)<\/p>\n

(AP) \u2013 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


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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

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