J & J will need $ 4.1 billion for talc – Last Hour

(ANSA) – NEW YORK, JULY 13 – Johnson & Johnson Must Pay
$ 4.14 billion in punitive damages to women who
they accuse him of having developed ovarian cancer later on
in the presence of absteto (asbestos) in his talc. He decided
a jury of St. Louis, ordering Johnson & Johnson to pay
a total of nearly $ 4.7 billion. Just before
expressing on the punitive damages, in fact, the jury had
established that the company had to pay at least 550 million
dollars in damages to 22 women.