Johnson & Johnson baby powder is arranged for a photograph in New York, U.S., on Friday, July 15, 2011.(Scott Eells / Bloomberg) Lawyers representing tens of thousands of women — including 465 ...

For 15 years and counting, the Johnson & Johnson talc litigation saga continues to play out in our nation’s court system, adding another exhibit to the unfortunate truism that the wheels of ...

Television advertisements soliciting claims from people who say they got cancer from talc powder products dramatically increased in September, the same month that Johnson & Johnson said it would ...

Plaintiffs alleged that Johnson & Johnson owned the Vermont talc mines that were the source of the asbestos exposure, which resulted in Mr. Plotkin to develop mesothelioma. The lawsuit eventually ...

With Johnson & Johnson sweetening the pot and mustering up the support of 83% of those who claim that the company’s talc products caused their cancer, it had appeared that the sides were ...

J&J subsidiary Red River Talc filed for Chapter 11 last month after more than 75% of about 93,500 talc claimants voted in favor of the plan. In a flurry of motions, the coalition has accused J&J ...

The Department of Justice has objected to Johnson & Johnson's third attempt to use a subsidiary bankruptcy as a way to settle talc-related cases while minimizing more exposure to the company's assets.

The fate of Johnson & Johnson’s latest push to use bankruptcy courts to end thousands of cancer lawsuits tied to its iconic baby powder now hinges on a high-stakes trial in January. After months ...

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) is taking a controversial legal argument to court for a third time in hopes of containing a barrage of lawsuits alleging its baby powder caused cancer, but it also faces ...

The mistrial comes one day after a Connecticut jury awarded a $15 million talc verdict to another Dean Omar client. A Massachusetts judge in a talcum powder case against Johnson & Johnson declared ...

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has published a new assessment of talc’s potential to cause cancer, concluding that is it ‘probably carcinogenic’ to humans.

The maker of a popular baby powder brand expanded a nationwide recall of the product to nearly 42,000 bottles due to the risk they are contaminated with cancer-causing asbestos, according to the ...