“The plan constitutes one of the largest settlements ever reached in a mass tort bankruptcy case.” Smith, a Mississippi-based lawyer who’s notched several wins against J&J, was once part of ...

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) faces a $1B+ reimbursement demand for cancer cases linked to talc products. Read more here.

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 ...

Government agencies have challenged J&J's bankruptcy proposal, which includes $8 Billion for around 60,000 asbestos ovarian cancer lawsuits.

HHS and the Department of Veterans Affairs recently objected to J&J’s $10 billion proposed settlement of tens of thousands of ...

Holdouts also challenged a claim from J&J and its supporters that the settlement is backed by more than 80% of claimants.

J&J faces more than 58,000 talc lawsuits in a consolidated federal court proceeding in New Jersey. The company's proposed bankruptcy settlement would end those lawsuits and prevent any similar ...

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services is pursuing over $1 billion from Johnson & Johnson for alleged cancer-causing talc products. Government agencies contest J&J's $10 billion settlement ...

HHS and the Department of Veterans Affairs recently objected to J&J’s $10 billion proposed settlement of tens of thousands of ovarian cancer lawsuits, saying that resolving those cases in ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services may seek over $1 billion from Johnson & Johnson as reimbursement for federal health agencies' payments of medical costs for ...