J&J Talc Users Tell SCOTUS $2.1 Billion Cancer Award Warranted

A $2.1 billion talc judgment against Johnson & Johnson in Missouri doesn’t need review, 20 women told the U.S. Supreme Court, saying the company’s challenges to the joint trial and punitive award lack merit.

Gail L. Ingham and others say they developed cancer from J&J powders allegedly tainted with asbestos.

A Missouri jury awarded $25 million in compensatory damages to each family. A Missouri appeals court upheld the $500 million actual damages award but cut the punitive component to $1.6 billion from about $4 billion. The state’s top court declined review.

J&J filed its petition for review in March. The ...