J&J Can’t Use Bankruptcy to Resolve Talc-Injury Lawsuits, Appeals Court Rules

Johnson & Johnson's plan to resolve tens of thousands of talc lawsuits by pushing them into bankruptcy court was rejected by a federal appeals court

A federal appeals court rejected Johnson & Johnson ’s plan to use a legal strategy to push about 38,000 talc lawsuits into bankruptcy court, hampering the controversial tactic the company and a handful of other profitable businesses have used to move mass personal-injury cases to chapter 11.

The Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday dismissed the chapter 11 case of J&J subsidiary LTL Management LLC, which the consumer-health-goods giant created in 2021 to move to bankruptcy court the mass lawsuits alleging its talc-based baby powder products caused cancer.

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