More than 1,300 Victorians have joined a class action against Johnson & Johnson alleging its talcum powder products left them with ovarian cancer, mesothelioma (cancer affecting the lungs), and other ...

Lawyers nationwide are gearing up for bellwether ovarian cancer trials against Johnson & Johnson this year, but a plaintiff ...

Major talcum powder verdicts are reshaping corporate liability, public health debates, and mass tort litigation nationwide.

Talc is not banned in the U.S., but today, many baby powder brands instead use cornstarch, which is used as an absorbent in cosmetics. While cornstarch is likely a safer choice than talc, some experts ...

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) was found liable by a Philadelphia jury in an ovarian cancer case linked to long term use of its talc based baby powder. The jury awarded compensatory and punitive damages ...

A Pennsylvania jury ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $250,000 in a new talc baby powder ovarian cancer trial loss.

Thousands of people in the UK claim that using talcum powder has given them cancer and are suing the manufacturer of Johnson’s baby powder. The product has been used for decades, for babies and people ...

A Philadelphia jury held Johnson & Johnson liable after finding its talc-based baby powder contributed to a woman's ovarian cancer death, awarding her family $250,000 in damages over failure-to-warn ...

A Los Angeles jury has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $966 million to the family of Mae Moore, who died in 2021 from mesothelioma, a rare cancer linked to asbestos-contaminated talc exposure. This ...

Johnson & Johnson was ordered to pay about $1.56 billion to a Maryland woman who blamed the company’s talc-based baby powder for causing her asbestos-linked cancer, the largest such jury verdict for ...

Federal health officials are scrutinizing a mineral—added to some makeup, medications, and foods—that many people have never thought twice about: talc. The JAMA article added that talc remains common, ...