J&J heads to US Supreme Court over baby talc case

Company sought to use the bankruptcy of its subsidiary company, LTL Management, to halt more than 38,000 lawsuits alleging the company’s baby powder and other talc products are contaminated with asbestos

J&J to ask the US Supreme Court to revive its effort to resolve tens of thousands of lawsuits over its talc products through the bankruptcy of a subsidiary. Picture: Mark RALSTON / AFP via Getty Images

Johnson & Johnson has said it would ask the US Supreme Court to revive its effort to resolve tens of thousands of lawsuits over its talc products through the bankruptcy of a subsidiary, after an appeals court refused to reconsider its ruling that the bankruptcy was improper.

J&J sought to use the bankruptcy of its subsidiary company, LTL Management, to halt more than 38,000 lawsuits alleging the company’s baby powder and other talc products are contaminated with asbestos, which J&J denies.