Class-action lawsuit filed after ovarian cancer linked to baby powder

By News Staff

A Toronto lawyer is launching a class-action lawsuit on behalf of women who have ovarian cancer linked to the use of baby powder.

The lawsuit, filed by Paul Miller of Will Davidson LLP, comes in the wake of several jury awards in the United States against Johnson & Johnson.

A woman was recently awarded $55 million after being diagnosed with cancer in 2011. She claimed to have used talc-based feminine hygiene products for the better part of 40 years. A separate jury awarded the family of another woman who died of ovarian cancer in 2013 $72million.

Miller says experts have confirmed a casual connection between the baby powder and cancer when talc is found on biopsy slides.

“It’s a terrible situation,” Miller says in a release. “Johnson & Johnson – could there be a more trusted name?”

“There are two things you think of: baby power and baby shampoo. Those should be trusted products.”

A handful of Canadian women, ranging in age from 40 to 60, have joined the lawsuit, claiming to have used baby powder with talc for the better part of 40 years.

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