In October Johnson & Johnson announced that it will be settling certain state court lawusits. In July of 2018, a St. Louis jury ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $ 4.14 billion in punitive damages to 22 women whose use of the talc products contributed to their ovarian cancer. In 2019 one New York City state court ordered the company to pay $325 to a victim of talc powder. In October 2020, Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay $100 million to resolve more than 1,000 lawsuits relating to their talc powder causing ovarian cancer.