J&J’s third talc bankruptcy settlement attempt denied

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Company says it will return to courts to fight talc cancer claims

A US bankruptcy court has denied Johnson & Johnson (J&J)’s third attempt to use a subsidiary’s bankruptcy to settle litigation over talc and cancer. The company now says it will abandon its bankruptcy settlement plan and return to the courts to fight the tens of thousands of lawsuits in North America claiming its talc products caused ovarian and other gynaecological cancers.