03:33 PM EDT, 09/16/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Johnson & Johnson ( JNJ ) said Monday that its motion to overturn a $260 million verdict in Oregon against the company in a talc powder lawsuit was granted by a trial judge.

Judge Katharine von ter Stegge of the 4th Judicial District Circuit Court of Oregon dismissed the jury's decision in June to award $60 million in compensatory damages and $200 million in punitive damages to the plaintiff, and ordered a new trial late Friday, Reuters reported Monday, citing a company spokesperson.

The lawsuit claimed that the plaintiff got mesothelioma, a type of cancer associated with asbestos exposure, from inhaling Johnson & Johnson's ( JNJ ) talc powder.

"The trial judge correctly vacated the indefensible $260 million verdict that, as previously stated, was the direct result of numerous egregious errors committed by the plaintiff's lawyers," Erik Haas, worldwide vice president of litigation at Johnson & Johnson ( JNJ ) said in a statement. "Only through such prejudicial conduct have these lawyers secured their recent aberrant adverse jury verdicts, which have no basis in the law or science."

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