Johnson & Johnson to pay 72 million dollars for cancer death

 Missouri state court of United States on 22 February 2016 ordered Johnson & Johnson Company to pay 72 million dollars. Amount has to be paid to the family of Jacqueline Fox, who died of ovarian cancer caused due to the use of the company's talc-based Baby Powder and Shower to Shower for several decades.
•    Circuit court of St. Louis awarded 10 million dollars as actual damages and 62 million dollars as punitive damages to the family of victim.
•    This verdict is the first of its kind by a U.S. jury to award damages over the claims.
•    Johnson & Johnson faces several hundred lawsuits claiming it failed to alert the consumers about the hazardous effects of its products.
•    In October 2013, a federal jury in Sioux Falls, South Dakota found that plaintiff Deane Berg's use of Johnson & Johnson's body powder products was a factor in her developing ovarian cancer. 
•    Then federal jury in Sioux Falls, South Dakota did not award any damages.