J&J to pay US$2.1 billion over cancer-causing talc
Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson has faced thousands of suits in the US alleging its failure to warn consumers of the risk of cancer from asbestos in its talc-based products. – EPA pic, June 24, 2020.
A US 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 Appeal cut by more than half the US$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.
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