A South Carolina jury awarded $63.4 million on Thursday to a man who claimed he got mesothelioma from using Johnson & Johnson’s talc products.
After awarding $32.6 million in compensatory damages and finding Johnson & Johnson strictly liable for Michael Perry’s cancer, which he was diagnosed with last year at the age of 53, jurors returned to deliberate on punitive damages. They came back with $30 million against Johnson & Johnson and $760,000 against American International Industries, a second defendant, according to a broadcast of the verdict on Courtroom View Network.
