In this photograph illustration, a container of Johnson’s child powder made by Johnson and Johnson sits on a desk in San Francisco, California.
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A Los Angeles jury late on Monday ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $966 million to the household of a girl who died from mesothelioma, discovering the company liable in the newest lawsuit alleging its child powder merchandise trigger cancer.
The household of Mae Moore, who died in 2021, sued the company the identical 12 months, claiming Johnson & Johnson’s talc child powder merchandise contained asbestos fibers that brought about her uncommon cancer. The jury ordered the company to pay $16 million in compensatory damages and $950 million in punitive damages, in accordance to court docket filings.
The verdict could possibly be diminished on enchantment because the U.S. Supreme Court has discovered that punitive damages ought to usually be not more than 9 occasions compensatory damages.
Representatives for Johnson & Johnson didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
The company has stated its merchandise are protected, don’t comprise asbestos, and don’t trigger cancer. J&J stopped promoting talc-based child powder in the U.S. in 2020, switching to a cornstarch product.