Johnson & Johnson offers to pay $5.5bn to settle baby powder lawsuits
The deal covers about 69,000 claims and would end a decade-long fight over allegations that talc products caused ovarian cancer.
- On Monday, Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay $5.5 billion to settle about 69,000 talc lawsuits in United States federal and state courts, resolving 99.75 percent of outstanding cases.
- Johnson & Johnson stopped selling Baby Powder in the United States in 2020 after the World Health Organization classified talc as "probably carcinogenic to humans" in 2024, following failed bankruptcy attempts to cap liabilities.
- With more than 67,000 cases pending in the federal MDL, Levin Papantonio attorneys secured a $20 million Florida jury verdict for Alberto Casaretto's family in October 2025, demonstrating the litigation's scope.
- Erik Haas, Johnson & Johnson's litigation head, said the agreement lets the company "put this matter behind it," while lawyers representing the plaintiffs welcomed the settlement as resolution to a decade-long court battle.
- This settlement excludes the United Kingdom, where the largest product liability case in the nation's history remains pending before the High Court, alleging Johnson & Johnson knew about asbestos contamination for decades.
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Johnson & Johnson reached an agreement of $5.5 billion to resolve virtually all pending lawsuits in the United States related to their talc-based products....
Johnson & Johnson Company (J&J) offered to pay up to $5.5 billion to solve US processes in which the company is accused of baby powder and other talc-based products causing ovarian cancer, writes BBC. Claimants claim that baby powder and other talc-containing products of the company would cause ovarian cancer.
Johnson & Johnson expressed through a statement that the demands and accusations “have no scientific basis”
The Vice President for the J&J Litigation Area considered the accusations of "meritless" cancer patients, having recognized that the recently approved multimillionaire package is a way of resolving the issue, which has been dragging away since 2009.
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