J&J Tees Up Proposal To Settle Complaints Alleging Talc Caused Ovarian Cancer

J&J executives are confident the proposal to pay plaintiffs making ovarian cancer claims a total of $6.48bn over 25 years will be accepted, resolving 99.75% of those lawsuits pending against it and US affiliates. The proposal allows individual plaintiffs direct say on whether to accept it.

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Johnson & Johnson’s latest proposal to settle thousands of complaints alleging that asbestos in previously marketed talc-containing products caused ovarian cancer would give individual plaintiffs a direct say on whether to accept it.

J&J executives are confident the proposal to pay plaintiffs making ovarian cancer claims a total of $6.48bn over 25 years will be accepted to resolve 99.75% of pending talc lawsuits against it and its US affiliates

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