Johnson & Johnson must pay $260 million (€238 million) to an Oregon woman who said she got mesothelioma, a deadly cancer linked to asbestos exposure, from inhaling the company's talc powder, a jury has found.
Johnson & Johnson must pay $260 million to an Oregon woman who said she got mesothelioma, a deadly cancer linked to asbestos exposure, from inhaling the company's talc powder, a jury has found.
Erik Haas, J&J's worldwide vice president of litigation, said in a statement that the verdict"is irreconcilable with the decades of independent scientific evaluations confirming talc is safe, does not contain asbestos and does not cause cancer".The plaintiff in the case, Kyung Lee, was diagnosed last year with mesothelioma at 48 years old.
A lawyer for J&J said at trial that Ms Lee's illness was likely caused by exposure to asbestos used at a factory near where she grew up.J&J faces lawsuits from more than 61,000 plaintiffs over talc.
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