 The Missouri Court of Appeals lowered the original 4.69 billion verdict from July 2018 after dismissing claims by some of the 22 women and their families who had sued. But it said the plaintiffs had proven that JJ and an affiliate concealed for decades that the talc products contained asbestos, worked tirelessly to ensure that testing protocols would not detect asbestos in all talc samples and published articles downplaying the safety hazards of talc. 