Johnson & Johnson takes a $4.8M hit in talc case, but once again pledges to appeal

Johnson & Johnson takes a $4.8M hit in talc case, but once again pledges to appeal

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Make it two losses in recent weeks for Johnson & Johnson and its defense of talc products—though this time around, the damages came in far from the nine-digit mark.

After a $325 million verdict in New York in late May, a jury in California on Wednesday ordered the drugmaker to pay $4.8 million to a woman who said her routine use of talc powder caused her to develop mesothelioma, Bloomberg reports.