Record $417M award in lawsuit linking baby powder to cancer

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A Los Angeles jury on Monday ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay a record $417 million to a hospitalized woman who claimed in a lawsuit that the talc in the company's iconic baby powder causes ovarian cancer when applied regularly for feminine hygiene.

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

Echeverria alleged Johnson & Johnson failed to adequately warn consumers about talcum powder's potential cancer risks. She used the company's baby powder on a daily basis beginning in the 1950s until 2016 and was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2007, according to court papers.

Echeverria developed ovarian cancer as a "proximate result of the unreasonably dangerous and defective nature of talcum powder," she said in her lawsuit.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/jury-awards-417m-lawsuit-linking-talcum-powder-cancer-49341087

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1. The jury's have not been consistent in these rulings, and studies linking talc to ovarian cancer

have been mixed.

At a minimum one thing that will result from this will be a warning label added to all products of this type, not unlike the labels on cigarette