Johnson & Johnson must pay $29 million to Teresa Leavitt, a dying California woman who blamed asbestos-tainted talc for causing her cancer, jurors found.
last year to pay $4.69 billion to 22 women who blamed their cancer on the product.
Joseph Satterley, Leavitt’s lawyer, said “another jury has rejected the decades-long deception by Johnson & Johnson claiming that their baby powder was free of asbestos.” The Oakland jury of five men and seven women ordered J&J to pay $29 million in actual damages for Leavitt’s injuries after finding that the company’s handling of the asbestos-laced baby powder was a “substantial contributing factor” in her cancer’s development. The panel also cited J&J for “failing to adequately warn” about the powder’s “potential risks.”
Leavitt’s doctors say her mesothelioma is advanced and she is not expected to live beyond 2020, according to testimony in the case. The mother of two testified that baby powder was used on her when she was a child, and she continued that practice into adulthood, sometimes as a “dry shower” and as foundation for her makeup.
J&J’s attorneys countered that there was no credible evidence the company’s baby powder caused her mesothelioma and that evidence of talc in her tissue could have come from a myriad of sources.The company has long argued that multiple studies have shown the powder to be free of the carcinogen and that plaintiffs’ cancers were tied to asbestos exposures at work or though building materials in homes or offices.
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