J&J Must Pay Record $966 Million in Talc Baby Powder Cancer Case
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(Bloomberg) -- Johnson & Johnson was told by a California jury to pay $966 million to the family of a deceased woman who blamed her cancer on life-long use of the company’s baby powder in the largest verdict for a single user in the 15-year litigation.
The Los Angeles state court jury late Monday found J&J liable for Mae Moore’s mesothelioma — a cancer tied to asbestos exposure — and awarded her $16 million in compensatory damages and $950 million in punitive damages. Moore died in 2021 at age 88. The award will go to her family, who alleged J&J hid the health risks of its iconic powder.
“We will immediately appeal this egregious and unconstitutional verdict that is directly at odds — in result and amount — with the vast majority of other talc cases wherein the company has prevailed,” Erik Haas, Worldwide Vice President of Litigation at J&J, said in a statement.
The verdict comes as J&J is gearing up for a wave of jury trials over its talc-based baby powder, which it withdrew from the worldwide market in 2023. The company unsuccessfully sought three times to use the bankruptcy courts to force a settlement of tens of thousands of cases.
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