Avon Products Inc. has filed for bankruptcy as it faces 200 lawsuits related to its talc-based products. Plaintiffs claim their cancer diagnoses are the…
More than 75% of plaintiffs have voted to support Johnson & Johnson’s proposed plan to settle roughly 61,000 lawsuits for $6.475 billion, according to…
Johnson & Johnson is proposing a settlement with mining companies Cyprus Mines Corporation and Imerys Talc America. If approved, J&J would initially pay $225…
The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer finds talc “probably” causes cancer. The key reason for the finding is because the…
U.S. District Judge Georgette Castner dismissed Johnson & Johnson’s libel claim against scientist Dr. Jacqueline Moline. J&J filed its lawsuit after Dr. Moline, the…
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