Tuesday, August 22, 2017
![ohnson & Johnson ordered to pay record $417 million in lawsuit linking baby powder to cancer ohnson & Johnson ordered to pay record $417 million in lawsuit linking baby powder to cancer](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2wpOzgx_sdwCUBhFSp2Pr3CFWZ32PBELJYtuWOY6Bp-bKfpP8LqqcfCRXYyGmYcWhf7CfUeEO86MxvV8JSOz70dzY9HtXYMxvAX6JtQpTWD84LiSrYkykgI8oUo_RQwBcprmlJ1GwyBI/s1600/talclawsuit.jpg)
California woman Eva 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.
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