California Jury Awards $29 Million in Baby Powder Cancer Case

California Jury Awards $29 Million in Baby Powder Cancer Case
Bottles of Johnson & Johnson baby powder line a drugstore shelf in New York on Oct. 15, 2015. Lucas Jackson/File Photo/Reuters
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OAKLAND, Calif.—Johnson & Johnson must pay $29 million to a woman who claimed its baby powder gave her terminal cancer, a California jury ruled on March 13.

A Superior Court jury in Oakland found the world’s largest health care company mainly liable for Teresa Leavitt’s mesothelioma. The verdict said that the baby powder was a “substantial contributing factor” in her illness.