A jury's ordered US pharmaceutical giant Johnson and Johnson to pay more than 2.5 billion dollars - to a woman who blamed it for causing her cancer
A jury's ordered US pharmaceutical giant Johnson and Johnson to pay more than 2.5 billion dollars - to a woman who blamed it for causing her cancer
24 December 2025
She claimed decades of exposure to asbestos in the company's talc-based baby powder caused her peritoneal mesothelioma .
Johnson and & Johnson will appeal the jury's decision, awarding the largest sum against them ever for a single plaintiff.
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