Written By Lexx Thornton A Los Angeles jury has ordered Johnson & Johnson (J&J) to pay $966 million to the family of a woman who died from mesothelioma, delivering one of the largest verdicts to date in the ongoing litigation over the company’s talc products. The jury found J&J liable after the family of Mae Moore, a California resident who passed away in 2021 at age 88, claimed that the company’s talc-based baby powder contained asbestos fibers which caused her rare cancer, mesothelioma. The verdict, announced late Monday, included a massive $950 million in punitive damages—intended to punish the company—in
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