J&J Ordered by Jury to Pay $260 Million to Baby Powder User.

Johnson & Johnson has been ordered by an Oregon jury to pay $260 million to a woman who claimed that her cancer was caused by the company's baby powder. The jury found that J&J was responsible for the woman's mesothelioma, a cancer linked to asbestos exposure, and awarded her $200 million in compensatory damages and $60 million in punitive damages. J&J is currently facing over 61,000 lawsuits related to talc and cancer, and the company plans to appeal the Oregon verdict. J&J has maintained that talc does not cause cancer and has already settled other mesothelioma cases to resolve talc litigation. [Extracted from the article]