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  •   Home > News > Health & Safety

    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


    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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