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On Friday, a Pennsylvania state-court jury in Philadelphia ordered Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) to pay $250,000 to the family of Gayle Emerson, finding the company liable in a case blaming its talc baby powder for her ovarian cancer. The verdict lands as the company also fights over whether...

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) has been directed to pay $65.6 million to a Minnesota woman who was diagnosed with cancer following the use of their talcum powder. What Happened: A Minnesota jury awarded Anna Jean Houghton Carley, a mother of three, $65.5 million on Friday. Carley contended...