Johnson & Johnson will have to pay a compensation of Rs 15500 crore in the cancer case with powder

Johnson & Johnson Case: The Supreme Court of America has dealt a big blow to Johnson & Johnson. After which the company will have to pay compensation of Rs 15500 crore to those women who have accused Johnson & Johnson of using the company’s baby powder and other talcum powder to give them uterine cancer (Ovarian Cancer).

US Supreme Court rejects J&J’s petition

In the year 2018, the St. Louis jury gave its verdict after hearing the petition of 20 women together. Johnson & Johnson said that they had not given a chance to present their side properly in the court, so they approached the US Supreme Court, but the Supreme Court also rejected the company’s petition, after which Johnson & Johnson will now have to pay Rs 15500 crore to women as compensation.

Case filed in American history

This case has been recorded in the history of America. St. Louis’s jury had ordered $25 million to be paid to every woman as compensation, that is, each woman would get about Rs 182 crore, in addition to a separate penalty of $400 billion on the company. In such a case, it became the sixth-largest case in American legal history. Although earlier the lower court had fixed compensation of $400 million, or about Rs 29,200 crore, but after the company’s appeal in the high court, it was reduced to half of $212 million.

Got justice today: Lawyer

The company still faces 26,000 lawsuits alleging that their baby powder caused cancer. After so many controversies, Johnson & Johnson had to withdraw its product from the US and Canada last year. After the Supreme Court’s decision, women’s lawyer Mark Lanier said that justice was done today, 20 families will get compensation for this terrible disease. And Johnson & Johnson was held responsible for this disease, because this disease was caused by them.