US PHARMACEUTICAL GIANT Johnson & Johnson has offered $5.5 billion (\u20ac4.83 billion) to settle tens of thousands of lawsuits claiming that its talcum powder products caused ovarian cancer, the company said Monday.<\/p>\n
The proposed settlement aims to end a long-standing legal battle that has weighed on the New Jersey-based firm for years.<\/p>\n
J&J said the settlement covers around 76,000 claims, representing nearly all remaining talc claims.<\/p>\n
The firm denies that its talc-based products caused cancer but stopped selling its talc-based baby powder in the United States and Canada in 2020.<\/p>\n
Its vice president of litigation said the claims \u201clack scientific merit.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis resolution allows the Company to put this matter behind it and remain focused on its mission to develop medicines and devices that save lives,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The company has previously settled most of the cases alleging that its talcum powder contained traces of asbestos blamed for causing cancer.<\/p>\n
It also faces a lawsuit in the United Kingdom over similar claims filed in 2025.<\/p>\n
According to the law firm representing around 3,000 complainants, the compensation claim \u201cis estimated to be more than \u00a31 billion (\u20ac1.17 billion)\u201d.<\/p>\n
Claimants allege that either they or a family member developed forms of ovarian cancer or mesothelioma after using J&J\u2019s baby powder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US PHARMACEUTICAL GIANT Johnson & Johnson has offered $5.5 billion (\u20ac4.83 billion) to settle tens of thousands of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[258,42,14174,20233,43,104,8307,132380,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-571947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-cancer","tag-headlines","tag-johnson-johnson","tag-lawsuits","tag-news","tag-ovarian-cancer","tag-settlement","tag-talcum-powder","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}