The Jury orders J & J to pay $ 4.7 billion in the case of asbestos cancer in Missouri

A Missouri jury on Thursday ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay a record $ 4.69 billion to 22 women who claimed that the company's talc-based products contain the same amount. asbestos and cause cancer of the ovary. is the largest J & J has so far faced claims that its talc products cause cancer.

The company is fighting against some 9,000 cases of talc. J & J denies both that its talc products cause cancer and that they contain asbestos. He claims that decades of studies show that his talc is safe and has managed to reverse previous talc verdicts for technical legal reasons.

Thursday's mbadive verdict at the St. Louis City Circuit Court included $ 550 million. According to an online Courtroom View Network trial, J & J said in a statement that the lawsuit was "fundamentally unfair" and said it would appeal the decision

. $ 1.31, or 1 percent, to $ 126.45 in exchanges after the hours following the award of punitive damages. The jury's decision followed more than five weeks of testimony from nearly a dozen experts on both sides

Women and their families said that the use of baby powder and other talc products for decades produced caused their diseases. They allege that the company knew that its talc was contaminated with asbestos since at least the 1970s, but that it had not warned consumers of the risks involved.

Johnson & Johnson is deeply disappointed with the verdict, which is the result of a fundamentally unfair process. the company said in a statement. The company said it was confident that its products do not contain asbestos or cause cancer.

"Every verdict against Johnson & Johnson in this court that went through the appeal process was reversed and the multiple errors present in this test were worse." J & J successfully quashed the talc verdicts in the past, and the appeal courts have reported a decision made in 2017 by the US Supreme Court. Court Limits Cases Where Bodily Injury Proceedings May Be Filed

Of the 22 women in the St. Louis trial, 17 were from outside Missouri, a state generally considered friendly to the plaintiffs. The practice of bringing plaintiffs into such jurisdictions, commonly criticized by the defendants as "forum shopping", will be challenged on appeal.

Mark Lanier, Women's Lawyer, in a statement after the verdict of J & J "If J & J insists on continuing to sell talc, they should report it with a serious warning," said Lanier .

Most of the lawsuits brought by J & J imply that talc itself causes ovarian cancer, but a small number of cases allege that contaminated talc causes mesothelioma, a tissue cancer closely related to exposure to asbestos.

Louis effectively combines these claims by alleging that asbestos – contaminated talc was causing ovarian cancer

. Pre-talc trials resulted in verdicts of up to $ 417 million. But this verdict rendered in 2017 by a California jury, as well as other verdicts in Missouri, has been quashed on appeal, and challenges of at least five other verdicts are pending.

The US Food and Drug Administration commissioned 2009 to 2010, including J & J. Lanier's baby powder told jurors that the agency and other laboratories as well as J & J had used imperfect badysis methods that did not correctly detect asbestos fibers.

Talc, the softest rock in the world, is a mineral closely related to asbestos and both substances may appear near the earth.

The plaintiffs claim that the two can intermingle in the mining process. the carcinogenic substance. J & J denies these claims, baderting that rigorous testing and purification processes ensure that the talc is clean.