A St. Louis jury decided on Monday that Johnson & Johnson must pay the family of Jacqueline Fox $72 million in damages for the role their products played in the 62-year-old Alabama woman’s death from stage-3 ovarian cancer after a two-year battle, St. Louis Today reports.
Fox used the company’s products, including the popular baby powder and Shower-to-Shower feminine wash, for approximately 35 years. The court decided that J&J should pay Fox’s family $10 million in actual damages and $62 million in punitive damages–one million dollars for each year of Fox’s life.
Of the over 1,200 suits that J&J is currently facing over their products and their link to cancer, Fox’s family is the first one to be awarded, though J&J has issued a statement claiming as they always do that their products are safe.
“We have no higher responsibility than the health and safety of consumers and we are disappointed with the outcome of the trial,” Carol Goodrich, a J&J spokeswoman, said Tuesday in an e-mailed statement. “We sympathize with the plaintiff’s family but firmly believe the safety of cosmetic talc is supported by decades of scientific evidence.”
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