Johnson & Johnson to pay $2.1 billion talc award as top court rejects appeal
The company still faces more than 25,000 lawsuits blaming baby powder for causing cancers.
By Greg Stohr and Jef FeeleyTribune News Service
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Johnson & Johnson must pay a $2.1 billion award to women who claimed its baby powder was contaminated with cancer-causing asbestos, after the U.S. Supreme Court left intact the largest verdict in the almost decade-long litigation over the iconic product.
The top U.S. court without comment on Tuesday refused to consider J&J’s objections to a St. Louis jury’s 2018 finding that its talc-based powder helped cause ovarian cancer in 20 women.
WASHINGTON, June 2 The US Supreme Court yesterday declined to hear Johnson & Johnson’s bid to overturn a US$2.12 billion (RM8.7 billion) damages award to women who blamed their ovarian cancer on asbestos in the company’s baby powder and other talc products. The justices turned away a.
Johnson & Johnson, which is based in New Brunswick, New Jersey, has stopped selling its iconic talc-based Johnson’s Baby Powder in the US and Canada, though it remains on the market elsewhere.