J&J’s baby powder caused a woman’s fatal cancer, Philly jury finds, awarding her family $250,000

2026-03-01 21:25:22

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A Philadelphia jury has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $250,000 to the family of Gayle Emerson, finding that the company’s talc-based baby powder caused her ovarian cancer. Emerson, who died months after filing her complaint in 2019, was part of a nationwide wave of litigation against J&J. The verdict included $50,000 in compensatory damages and $200,000 in punitive damages, despite J&J’s defense that the baby powder was not responsible and Emerson had other risk factors.

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