{"id":231560,"date":"2025-12-13T23:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T23:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/231560\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T23:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T23:07:08","slug":"jury-says-johnson-johnson-owes-40m-to-2-cancer-patients-who-used-talcum-powders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/231560\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury says Johnson & Johnson owes $40M to 2 cancer patients who used talcum powders"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Los Angeles jury awarded $40 million on Friday to two women who claimed that talcum powder made by Johnson & Johnson<\/a> caused their ovarian cancer.<\/p>\n

The giant health care company<\/a> said it would appeal the jury’s liability verdict and compensatory damages.<\/p>\n

The verdict is the latest development in a longstanding legal battle over claims that talc in Johnson’s Baby Powder and Shower to Shower body power was connected to ovarian cancer and mesothelioma, a cancer that strikes the lungs and other organs. Johnson & Johnson stopped selling<\/a> powder made with talc worldwide in 2023.<\/p>\n

In October, another California jury ordered J&J to pay $966 million to the family of a woman who died of mesothelioma, claiming she developed the cancer because the baby powder she used was contaminated with the carcinogen asbestos.<\/p>\n

In the latest case, the jury awarded $18 million to Monica Kent and $22 million to Deborah Schultz and her husband. \u201cThe only thing they did was be loyal to Johnson & Johnson as a customer for only 50 years,\u2019\u2019 said their attorney, Daniel Robinson of the Robinson Calcagnie law firm in Newport Beach, California. \u201cThat loyalty was a one-way street.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Erik Haas, J&J’s worldwide vice president of litigation, said in a statement that the company had won \u201c16 of the 17 ovarian cancer cases it previously tried\u201d and expected to do so again upon appealing Friday’s verdict.<\/p>\n

Haas called the jury’s findings “irreconcilable with the decades of independent scientific evaluations confirming that talc is safe, does not contain asbestos, and does not cause cancer.”<\/p>\n

Johnson & Johnson replaced the talc in its baby powder sold in most of North America with cornstarch in 2020 after sales declined. <\/p>\n

In April, a U.S. bankruptcy court judge denied J&J’s plan to pay $9 billion<\/a> to settle ovarian cancer and other gynecological cancer litiation claims based on talc-related products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Los Angeles jury awarded $40 million on Friday to two women who claimed that talcum powder made…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275],"tags":[123613,584,79,110,18,3334,135,475,474,19,17,123612,4075,47531,12000],"class_list":{"0":"post-231560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-123613","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-cancer","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-health","15":"tag-health-care","16":"tag-healthcare","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-juries","20":"tag-lawsuits","21":"tag-ovarian-cancer","22":"tag-womens-health"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115714775010516930","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}