NEW YORK, June 5 (Reuters) - A Los Angeles jury on

Friday sided with Johnson & Johnson ( JNJ ) in a lawsuit by the

families of three women who alleged that the company's talc

products caused ovarian cancer, finding that J&J was not

negligent when selling cosmetic talc products.

* The lawsuit was filed by the families of Mary Owens,

Bonnie Tienken and Geneva Williams, who each died of ovarian

cancer after using talc-based baby powder.

* More than 67,000 plaintiffs have sued J&J, alleging that

its baby powder and other talc products cause ovarian cancer.

* J&J has won some cases outright, including an

Oklahoma trial last week, but juries have awarded large verdicts

for plaintiffs in other cases.

* J&J stopped selling talc-based baby powder in the U.S. in

2020, switching to a cornstarch product.

* The case was based on "junk science," said Erik Haas,

J&J's vice president of litigation.

* The verdict is "disappointing," said lawyer Ari Friedman,

who represented one of the plaintiffs.

* J&J has settled a majority of cases alleging that its

products caused mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer associated

with asbestos.

* Nearly all of the remaining cases allege that talc

products cause ovarian cancer.

(Reporting by Dietrich Knauth, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien and

Sergio Non.)