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What the Minnesota Jury Decided — and What It Means for Your Family A Minnesota jury looked at the evidence and decided that Johnson & Johnson’s cosmetic talc products contained asbestos, that those products caused a person to develop mesothelioma, and that $10.2 million was what that harm was worth. If you or someone you love has been diagnosed with mesothelioma and used Johnson’s Baby Powder or other talc-based cosmetic products for years, that verdict is not just a headline. It is a door opening. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle toxic-tort and wrongful death cases for families across the country, and we are writing this page for one person: the Minnesotan sitting at a kitchen table at 2 a.m., reading about this verdict on a phone, wondering whether the mesothelioma diagnosis in their family could be connected to a powder they used every day for decades. The answer may be yes. And the law in this state gives you tools that many other states do not. Mesothelioma is a death sentence delivered on a delay. The asbestos fibers that cause it were breathed in or absorbed decades ago — sometimes thirty or forty years…