Lawyers representing tens of thousands of women — including 465 from Dallas/Fort Worth and a total of 2,558 from Texas — will ...

This is a summary of a request from Red River Talc to hire Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom as special litigation counsel, filed Oct. 18 with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Houston.

Multinational has struck a deal with most claimants over toxic talc powder claims through a Chapter 11 filing by a subsidiary ...

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has filed a motion to dismiss Johnson & Johnson’s latest attempt to use the bankruptcy ...

The first time Johnson & Johnson faced a lawsuit due to its talc-based baby powder causing cancer was way back in 1999.

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 ...

Johnson & Johnson has twice been unsuccessful in using a controversial bankruptcy tactic to contain lawsuits alleging its baby powder caused cancer. The third time, J&J said, will be different.

J&J's third attempt at bankruptcy protection involves a subsidiary called Red River Talc that would cap settlement damages at $8 billion. The company maintains that none of the talc-related claims ...

To stop those lawsuits, J&J subsidiary Red River Talc filed for bankruptcy protection in a federal bankruptcy court in Houston, last Friday. The company has denied the allegations and has called ...

Calling J&J’s strategy “a textbook example of bad faith,” the U.S. Trustee claims that the company’s subsidiary Red River Talc LLC—which was established by J&J with the intent to declare ...

The U.S. Trustee Program, a part of the DoJ that oversees bankruptcy case administration, filed a motion recently in a bankruptcy court in Texas accusing Red River Talc, the J&J unit formed ...