California jury awards $29M in baby powder cancer case

OAKLAND, Calif. — Johnson & Johnson must pay $29 million to a woman who claimed its baby powder gave her terminal cancer, a California jury ruled Wednesday.

A Superior Court jury in Oakland found the world’s largest health care company mainly liable for Teresa Leavitt’s mesothelioma. The verdict said that the baby powder was a “substantial contributing factor” in her illness. Her suit is one of many that link cancers to asbestos in Johnson & Johnson’s talc-based products and contend that the company concealed the health risk for decades.Johnson & Johnson is facing some 13,000 similar lawsuits around the country.

The company has insisted that its talc-based products are demonstrably safe but it has lost a string of court cases.A jury in Missouri last year awarded $4.69 million to 22 women. Johnson & Johnson’s stock price dropped nearly 2 percent after hours on Wednesday before recovering to close at $139.41.

AnwarRichardson I’m moving to the woods :-(

'California Jury' is the new 'Mississippi or Louisiana Jury'. Those two words signal that idiots made a political and emotional decision. despite facts to the contrary.

Why would anyone put fine talc near the V-J? Don’t inhale; Don’t put near sensitive parts. How about some corn starch when getting near sensitive Orafi?

Wtf California!

clarencehilljr I know I’ve used that shit numerous times playing pool!! JsNative_Am I need my check. 😂😂😂

Don't.

MsLaToshaBrown Yes!

I don't know why Johnson & Johnson haven't simply stopped putting talc in their products by now. 🤔 13, 000 more of these cases are in the pipeline. They should learn the lesson: don't put asbestos in skin care products.

The floodgates have officially been opened for baby powder claims.

This one reason why drug costs will never go down. 100s of millions have used this powder, and junk science was used in this case.

I've got a similar feature on what it actually feels like to hold a cellphone. I've never actually gathered so much hair in one hand, it's strange to think I didn't already cut it yesterday. ...yeah.... right.

Baby powder? 🤔

Proved

there go any free agents the jets were after

Risperdal is poison. J&J sucks

I should file against trump for my stress.

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