Breaking News
  • Supreme Court questions Gujarat over slow trial in rape case against Asaram Bapu
  • Unprecedented 20 year jail term and 30 Lakhs fine awarded to Ram Rahim in two Rape cases
  • Dera Sacha Sauda Chief Ram Rahim gets 10 years of Rigorous Imprisonement in Rape case
  • Justice Dipak Misra sworn in as the 45th Chief Justice of India
  • ‘Certified Super Rich’ husband to shell out Rs 4 lakh a month Alimont to estranged wife
  • SC judge, Justice Chelameswar: Collegium meetings follow no principles of Law
  • ‘Be ready to face Bullets in Rohtak’: Haryana Govt. warned Dera Followers on Sentencing day
  • HC looses faith in Govt post violence, Spl. Judge to be Airlifted to Rohtak Jail for pronouncing Sentence
  • FIR sought against Rishi Kapoor for posting indecent and vulgar picture of a Minor Child on Social Media
  • Haryana’s Deputy Advocate General sacked for carrying Ram Rahim’s Bag post coviction
Home / Did you know / USA Jury give Compensation of Rs.2700 Crore by linking Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder to Cancer

USA Jury give Compensation of Rs.2700 Crore by linking Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder to Cancer

August 26,2017:

Victim used the baby powder on a daily basis between 1950s and 2016.

Johnson & Johnson Powder                                    Pic by preptalk.us

Los Angeles jury has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay a record USD 417 million to the hospitalized woman who claimed in a lawsuit that talc in Company’s iconic baby powder causes the ovarian cancer when applied regularly for feminine hygiene.

Verdict in lawsuit brought by California woman, Eva Echeverria, marks largest sum awarded in a series of the talcum powder lawsuit verdicts against Johnson & Johnson in courts around U.S.

According to the Court Paper’s Echeverria alleged that Johnson & Johnson failed to adequately warn the consumers about the talcum powder’s potential cancer risks. She used company’s baby powder on a daily basis beginning in 1950’s until 2016 and was diagnosed with the ovarian cancer in the year 2007.

In the suit filed the victim states that,”She developed the ovarian cancer as a “proximate result of unreasonably dangerous and defective nature of the talcum powder”.

Her Attorney, Mark Robinson, has stated that his client is still undergoing the cancer treatment while has told him that she hoped verdict would lead to Johnson & Johnson putting some additional warnings on its products.

Jury’s award includs $68 million in the compensatory damages and $340 million in the punitive damages.

Her counsel further adds that,”Johnson & Johnson had many warning bells over the period of 30 years but failed to warn women who were buying its product”.

Johnson & Johnson in its statement has stated,”Company will appeal jury’s decision. While company sympathizes with the women suffering from the ovarian cancer but scientific evidence supports the safety of the Johnson’s baby powder”.

Source Associated Press

Related News @ Latest Laws-

6.5.2017 – US Courts orders Johnson & Johnson to pay Compensation after its Powder gives Woman Ovarian Cancer

3.5.2016 – USA Jury Orders Johnson & Johnson to Pay $55 Million Compensation in Baby-Powder Cancer Suit

Source - PTI

Facebook Comments
Jury USA

Check Also

Do you support the call of installing Antique Battle Tanks at JNU Campus?

Do you support the call of installing Antique Battle Tanks at JNU Campus?

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *