The agreement includes "additional monetary and non-monetary benefits for all talc claimants," according to J&J, and takes the proportion backing the settlement above 75% – the threshold needed ...

All told, there are estimated to be more than 19,000 lawsuits claiming injury caused by J&J’s talc products, so the settlement – if confirmed - represents a fraction of the potential liability ...

A federal judge in Houston has rejected the third attempt by Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) subsidiary Red River to settle thousands of lawsuits related to its talc-based products, which have been ...

and all talc-supplier disputes. Advertisement Article continues below this ad Last year a subsidiary of J&J proposed to pay approximately $6.48 billion over 25 years as part of a settlement in the ...

Erik Haas, J&J’s worldwide vice-president of litigation, said last Friday that the settlement is “fair and equitable to all parties” and that 83% of current talc claimants voted for it.

Red River Talc LLC, a J&J subsidiary, was seeking confirmation of a proposed prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan that would have been one of the biggest mass tort settlements in history ...