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J&J Talc Users Want Cancer Checks Even If It Cost Billions

Johnson & Johnson should be on the hook for potentially billions of dollars in medical fees for women who used its talc-based baby powders and want to monitor their future health over cancer fears, according to a lawsuit. Lawyers representing …

Cancer Plaintiffs Drill Down on J&J’s Support for $8.9B Talc Deal

The lead negotiators for Johnson & Johnson’s proposed $8.9 billion settlement of thousands of talc lawsuits faced intense questioning in U.S. bankruptcy court on Wednesday about how much support the company has for the deal. During a multi-day court hearing …

Cancer Victims Urge Judge to Dismiss J&J Talc Unit’s Second Bankruptcy

Cancer victims on Monday urged a U.S. judge to dismiss a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary’s second bankruptcy filing, saying that the company is abusing the bankruptcy system in its renewed attempt to resolve tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging that …

Judge Halts Most Talc Lawsuits Against J&J, Stops Trials

A U.S. judge on Thursday halted most of the tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder and other talc products caused cancer and stopped any trials as part of a company subsidiary’s second attempt to settle …

Johnson & Johnson Unit Loses Bid to Stay in Bankruptcy During Supreme Court Appeal

A Johnson & Johnson company cannot delay a court order dismissing its bankruptcy, a U.S. court said on Friday, despite the company’s planned Supreme Court appeal to use bankruptcy to resolve tens of thousands of lawsuits over its talc products. …

J&J to Seek U.S. Supreme Court Review on Unit’s Bankruptcy

Johnson & Johnson JNJ.N said on Wednesday that it would ask the U.S. Supreme Court to revive its effort to resolve tens of thousands of lawsuits over its talc products through the bankruptcy of a subsidiary, after an appeals court …

J&J Talc Unit Faces Bankruptcy Judge After Tactic Rejected

Johnson & Johnson’s subsidiary shouldering talc-related lawsuits goes before a bankruptcy judge on Tuesday for the first time since a U.S. appeals court last month nixed the company’s attempt to offload the litigation into Chapter 11 proceedings. A three-judge panel …

J&J to End Global Sales of Talc-Based Baby Powder

Johnson & Johnson will stop selling talc-based baby powder globally in 2023, the drugmaker said on Thursday, more than two years after it ended U.S. sales of a product that drew thousands of consumer safety lawsuits. “As part of a …

Director of 9/11 Fund Picked to Estimate Cost of J&J Talc Claims

The lawyer who oversaw payments to victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will be appointed by a federal judge to estimate the total liability that Johnson & Johnson faces for claims that talc in its baby powder causes cancer. …

J&J’s Controversial Prison Testing Resurfaces in Baby Powder Lawsuits

More than 50 years ago, nearly a dozen men incarcerated outside of Philadelphia enrolled in an experiment funded by Johnson & Johnson, according to unsealed documents. Now, those studies have come back to haunt the world’s largest maker of health-care …