Additur, JNOV Briefed After Pennsylvania Jury Awards $250,000 For Ovarian Cancer

( March 6, 2026, 8:07 AM EST) -- PHILADELPHIA — A Pennsylvania jury’s $7,148 award for a woman’s four years of suffering with ovarian cancer as a result of exposure to asbestos-tainted talc as part of its $250,000 verdict “is not a verdict.  It is a number that is out of touch with the reality of the suffering,” plaintiffs argue in seeking additur.  But in a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict (JNOV), two Johnson & Johnson entities argue that the plaintiffs had not demonstrated that talc caused her disease, let alone conduct warranting punitive damages....