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Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay Cancer Victim’s Family $72M

A Missouri jury has awarded $72 million to the family of a woman who died of ovarian cancer allegedly caused by her use of Johnson & Johnson products containing talc. So reports the Associated Press.

The family of Birmingham, Ala., resident Jackie Fox claimed the ovarian cancer that killed her when she was 62 was caused by her decades-long use of Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder. It is the first of more than 1,000 similar suits against Johnson & Johnson to result in monetary compensation.

During the trial, Fox’s attorneys introduced an internal J&J memo in which a medical consultant compared denying the link between the use of talc and ovarian cancer to denying the link between cigarettes and cancer. Legal experts expect that the verdict to be lowered on appeal.

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