St. Louis jury awards $55M in Johnson & Johnson cancer suit

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A jury in St. Louis is ordering Johnson & Johnson to pay $55 million to a South Dakota woman who claims the company’s talcum powder caused her to develop ovarian cancer.

The jury returned the verdict in favor of plaintiff Gloria Ristesund on Monday.

It comes after a St. Louis jury in February awarded $72 million to the family of an Alabama woman who sued Johnson & Johnson over ovarian cancer she said was caused by using its baby powder and other products containing talcum.

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