Johnson & Johnson told to pay US$2.1 billion over cancer-causing talc powder

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A U.S. court has upheld a verdict that talcum powder sold by Johnson & Johnson caused ovarian cancer and ordered the pharmaceutical giant to pay US$2.1 billion in damages.

The decision by the Missouri Court of Appeals cut by more than half the $4.4 billion a jury had awarded 22 people in 2018. The court agreed that some of the plaintiffs should not have been included in the case as they were from outside the state.

"Because defendants are large, multi-billion-dollar corporations, we believe a large amount of punitive damages is necessary to have an effect in this case," the judgement said. A spokeswoman for Johnson & Johnson said the company would appeal the decision in the Supreme Court of Missouri, according to the Wall Street Journal.

 

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They’re trying to convince the public they’ve been “misinformed”. johnson is the Largest “business” torturers & killers of animals in the world.

Keri_Adams Oh no!! Not the worlds best chafe protector. So it ain’t so!!

The evidence linking the cancer to talc must have been pretty sketchy!!!

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