A jury ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $72 million in damages to the family of one woman who claimed she developed cancer after using the company’s baby powder.
A jury has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $72 million in damages to the family of a woman who claimed she developed cancer after using the company's baby powder.
The women claimed they had developed ovarian cancer after using products containing talcum powder.
They alleged their diseases were "a direct and proximate result of the unreasonably dangerous and defective nature of talcum powder," according to a copy of the lawsuit.
The products named in the lawsuit were Johnson & Johnson's Baby Powder and Shower to Shower, a feminine hygiene product.
The women claimed that the company knew that talcum powder had been suggested as a link to ovarian cancer as early as 1971, but that the concerns were ignored.
"[Johnson & Johnson] procured and disseminated false, misleading, and biased
information regarding the safety of the products to the public and used influence over governmental and regulatory bodies regarding talc," the lawsuit states.
The case was tried in St. Louis County Circuit Court in Missouri, after which jurors found the company guilty of negligence, conspiracy, and fraud, Reuters reported.
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