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The Los Angeles Superior Court jury's verdict in favor of
"We are grateful for the jury's verdict on this matter and that Eva Echeverria was able to have her day in court," Mark Robinson, her lawyer, said in a statement
The verdict included $70 million in compensatory damages and
$347 million in punitive damages. It was a major setback for J&J, which
faces 4,800 similar claims nationally and has been hit with over $300 million
in verdicts by juries in
"We will appeal today's verdict because we are guided by the science, which supports the safety of Johnson's Baby Powder," J&J said.
Echeverria's lawsuit was the first out of hundreds of
The 63-year-old claimed she developed terminal ovarian cancer after decades of using J&J's products. Her lawyers argued J&J encouraged women to use its products despite knowing of studies linking ovarian cancer to genital talc use.
J&J's lawyers countered that studies and federal agencies have not found that talc products are carcinogenic.
The trial follows five prior ones in
J&J lost four of those trials and, along with a talc supplier, has been hit with $307 million in verdicts
http://fortune.com/2017/08/21/johnson-and-johnson-baby-powder-cancer-suit/