US healthcare company Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has been ordered by a Los Angeles jury to pay a whopping $966 million to the family of a woman who died from mesothelioma, ruling that the company’s talc-based baby powder caused her cancer.

Mae Moore, an 88-year-old California resident, died due to mesothelioma in 2021. The same year, her family sued Johnson and Johnson, claiming that the company’s talc baby powder products contained asbestos fibres that caused her rare cancer, Reuters news agency reported.

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A court in California on Monday (October 6) ordered J&J to pay $16 million in compensatory damages and $950 million in punitive damages, according to court filings, the report added.

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