Johnson & Johnson must pay $29 million in baby powder cancer case, jury says

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

Lucas Jackson / Reuters fileGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.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

 

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coachTS71 I’m a GROWN ASS ADULT, lemme RUB THAT GOOD BABY POWDER SHIT ON ME AW HELL YEAH THE GIRLS AND I ARE GONNA HAVE FUNNNN TONIGHT!

Ridiculous!

her life is not worth 29m $$. sorry.

If baby powder actually caused cancer, all babies would be dead...

Don’t buy any of J&J products - they should be shut down.

According to California, everything gives you cancer.

So now they owe her $29 million worth of baby powder?

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