American multinational pharmaceutical and consumer goods company Johnson & Johnson has been ordered to pay over 110 million US dollars to a women in Virginia who claims to have developed ovarian cancer after almost 40 years of using their talc-based product for feminine hygiene. She also alleges that the talc was contaminated with asbestos. Awarding $5.4 million in compensatory damages, the jury stated that J&J was 99 percent responsible while Imerys Talc America, which provides the product to the company, was just 1 percent at fault. It has awarded punitive damages of $105 million against J&J and $50,000 against Imerys.
By Vikraman Maniraj | May 5, 2017 4:11 PM #JohnsonandJohnson #Talc
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