BALTIMORE — A Baltimore jury awarded over $1.5 billion in damages to a Maryland woman who alleged in a lawsuit that Johnson & Johnson’s talc-based personal care products caused her to develop cancer.
A Baltimore jury ordered Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries to pay over $1.5 billion to a woman who claimed decades of exposure to asbestos in the company’s talc-based products caused her peritoneal mesothelioma, a form of cancer.
A Baltimore city jury ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay over $1.5 billion in a lawsuit that alleged the company’s talc-based personal products gave a Maryland woman cancer ... .
The verdict, delivered in late December 2025, marks the largest individual award in the decades-long history of litigation surrounding the company’s talc-based baby powder ... talc liabilities.