A jury in Middlesex County, New Jersey, awarded $37 million on Thursday in the case of a man who claimed he developed mesothelioma from lifelong use of Johnson & Johnson’s talc products.

The jury apportioned 70 percent of the award to Johnson & Johnson, maker of the Johnson’s Baby Powder that 46-year-old plaintiff Steven Lanzo III said he had used all his life, and 30 percent to co-defendant Imerys Talc America, which produced the raw ingredient in the company’s products. The jury awarded $30 million to Lanzo and $7 million to his wife.

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