US supreme court will not hear J&J talc appeal
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Rebecca Trager2021-06-04T13:00:00
Decision means J&J must pay $2.1 billion previously awarded to 22 women who say talc caused their ovarian cancer
Johnson and Johnson (J&J) has officially lost its legal fight to overturn a US court verdict ordering the company to pay $2.1 billion (£1.4 billion) in damages to 22 women and their families who claim their ovarian cancer was caused by its talc products. On 1 June, the US supreme court rejected the company’s request to review the Missouri jury’s decision from cases that were combined in a single trial in 2018.