Judge Halts Most Talc Lawsuits Against J&J, Stops Trials April 20, 2023 By Mike Spector A U.S. judge on Thursday halted most of the tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder...
J&J Talc Unit 2nd Bankruptcy Must Be Dismissed, Cancer Victims’ Lawyers Say April 11, 2023 By Dietrich Knauth and Mike Spector Johnson & Johnson’s renewed effort to resolve talc lawsuits through an $8.9 billion bankruptcy settlement must be dismissed as a...
J&J Unit Files for Second Bankruptcy to Pursue $8.9B Talc Settlement April 5, 2023 By Mike Spector and Dietrich Knauth Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $8.9 billion to settle tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging that talc in...
J&J Talc Unit Faces Bankruptcy Judge After Tactic Rejected February 14, 2023 By Mike Spector Johnson & Johnson’s subsidiary shouldering talc-related lawsuits goes before a bankruptcy judge on Tuesday for the first time since a...
U.S. Court Rejects J&J Bankruptcy Strategy for Thousands of Talc Lawsuits January 31, 2023 By Tom Hals, Mike Spector and Dan Levine A U.S. appeals court on Monday shot down Johnson & Johnson’s attempt to offload tens of thousands of lawsuits over...
Koch Industries Gets $2.5B in Dividends From Unit That Offloaded Asbestos Liability January 26, 2023 By Dan Levine and Mike Spector Industrial conglomerate Koch Industries received nearly $2.5 billion in dividend payments last year from its Georgia-Pacific unit, which had spun...
Boy Scouts, Catholic Dioceses Find Haven From Sex Abuse Suits in Bankruptcy January 3, 2023 By Kristina Cooke, Benjamin Lesser and Mike Spector Lawmakers around the United States have tried to grant justice to victims of decades-old incidents of child sexual abuse by...
Special Report: Corporate Chiefs Dodge Lawsuits Over Sexual Abuse, Deadly Products November 8, 2022 By Mike Spector, Benjamin Lesser, Dan Levine, Kristina Cooke and Disha Raychaudhuri Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction landed him in prison. Allegations of serial sexual abuse cost him his career and...
Tesla Faces U.S. Criminal Probe Over Self-Driving Claims October 27, 2022 By Mike Spector and Dan Levine Tesla Inc. is under criminal investigation in the United States over claims that the company’s electric vehicles can drive themselves,...
How a Bankruptcy ‘Innovation’ Halted Thousands of Lawsuits from Sick Plaintiffs June 24, 2022 By Dan Levine and Mike Spector Attorney Greg Gordon sat before a packed hotel ballroom of bankruptcy lawyers who had come to hear him hold court...