After victories against Johnson & Johnson in Talcum Powder Demand son honors his late mother

A jury has awarded the family of a Missouri woman $ 72 million in a civil lawsuit - a legal battle conducted by Marvin Salter on behalf of his deceased mother.

On Monday, a St. Louis jury found Johnson & Johnson responsible for Jackie Fox ovarian cancer, which claimed in the complaint was the result of the use of powder and baby shower for showering the company powder, both of which contained talc powder, according to court documents.

Fox, of Birmingham, Alabama, was diagnosed with cancer in 2013, according to court documents. He died last fall at age 62 after her ovarian cancer came back. His son, Marvin Salter, took over the case after his death and was awarded damages.

"Continuing this trial was made painful but later in the day, which was what I wanted," Salter told ABC News. "And because of your desires it is why I continue to go ahead with it."

In a Facebook post moving, Salter published a picture of him and his mother smiling as she paid tribute to her battle against cancer.

The jury awarded $ 10 million in compensatory damages and $ 62 million for punitive damages to the property of Fox, according to the law firm Beasley Allen damages, representing Fox.

His case is one of several civil cases against the company related to products containing talc-presented by Beasley Allen. There are more than 1,200 civil lawsuits against the company related to its products contain talc, according to the Associated Press.

Johnson & Johnson told ABC News in a statement that its talcum powder "meets the highest standards of quality, purity and compliance."

"The verdict goes against decades of sound science demonstrating the safety of talc as a cosmetic ingredient in several products, while we sympathize with the family of the applicant, who disagree with the outcome," said a spokesman for the company. "Ovarian cancer is a complex disease with no known cause and the Food and Drug Administration of the United States National Cancer Institute and the Committee on Cosmetic Ingredient Review all have concluded that there is insufficient evidence linking talc to ovarian cancer. "

Reportedly, Fox attorneys introduced into evidence an internal memo of September 1997, a medical consultant for Johnson & Johnson suggesting a link between talc and ovarian cancer, according to the AP. In the note, the consultant reportedly wrote that anyone who denies the risk from the use of toilet talcum powder and ovarian cancer would "deny the obvious in the face of all evidence to the contrary," according to the AP.

Two studies published about a possible link between ovarian cancer and exposure to talcum powder have been inconclusive. A 2010 study looked at 200,000 women, where 721 cases of ovarian cancer were reported. They found that there was a possible association with a specific subtype of ovarian cancer, but stressed that there were too many variables to draw a direct link between talc and cancer risk.

Another study analyzed data from 11,933 women and found that any possible link between talcum powder and ovarian cancer could not be determined due to other variables.

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