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Johnson & Johnson must pay $72 million for cancer death linked to...
2016-02-23 21:12:29| Biotech - Topix.net
Johnson & Johnson was ordered by a Missouri state jury to pay $72 million of damages to the family of a woman whose death from ovarian cancer was linked to her use of the company's talc-based Baby Powder and Shower to Shower for several decades. In a verdict announced late Monday night, jurors in the circuit court of St. Louis awarded the family of Jacqueline Fox $10 million of actual damages and $62 million of punitive damages, according to the family's lawyers and court records.
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Category:Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals