J&J Told to Pay $300 Million More by Talc-Cancer Jury
- Jury adds to $25 million actual-damages verdict in N.Y. trial
- Lawsuit is one of thousands linking J&J’s baby powderto cancer
Johnson & Johnson baby powder
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Johnson & Johnson was ordered by a jury to pay $300 million in punitive damages to a woman who blamed her rare asbestos-related cancer on decades of daily use of the company’s talc-based products.
The ruling brings to $325 million the amount the state-court jury in Manhattan said J&J should pay Donna Olson and her husband over her cancer that she blamed on J&J’s baby powder and its former Shower-to-Shower product.