J&J faces talc lawsuits from more than 62,000 plaintiffs, according to a company filing. But the figure swells as high as 100,000 when counting claimants who haven't sued, Erik Haas, J&J's global ...

J&J has said the Purdue ruling does not affect its settlement proposal because U.S. bankruptcy law includes explicit legal protections for asbestos defendants that have not filed for bankruptcy.

J&J has announced plans to finalize a $6.48 billion global settlement through the bankruptcy of a subsidiary company, after earlier efforts were rebuffed twice by federal courts.

Red River Talc LLC, a J&J subsidiary, was […] A U.S. bankruptcy court judge has denied Johnson & Johnson’s settlement plan related to baby powder containing talc, providing another setback in ...

J&J’s Red River Talc unit made its filing in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for ... The goal is to use the proceeding to force all plaintiffs into one settlement, without requiring J&J itself to file ...

A Johnson & Johnson unit working to resolve massive cancer litigation in bankruptcy court was accused by a former head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of making misleading ...

Federal Judge Christopher Lopez questioned the fundamental basis of bankruptcy, and plaintiffs' lawyers who opposed it are now vindicated. What's next?

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Johnson & Johnson has cleared a key threshold of support for its proposed $6.5-billion settlement of tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging its baby powder and other talc ...

RELATED: Johnson & Johnson talc settlement includes $15M for MD; first payment due late July. Last year a subsidiary of J&J proposed to pay approximately $6.48 billion over 25 years as part of a ...

J&J faces lawsuits from more than 62,000 claimants who alleged that its baby powder and other talc products were contaminated with asbestos and caused ovarian and other cancers.

A U.S. bankruptcy court judge has denied Johnson & Johnson's settlement plan related to baby powder containing talc, providing another setback in the company's efforts to resolve the matter.