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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>The world\u2019s largest maker of health-care products hopes to settle complaints from about 60 000 claimants and fund a trust set up in US bankruptcy court in Trenton, New Jersey, to cover future claims, the company said Tuesday in a securities filing. J&J has already withdrawn its talc-based baby powder and others, including Shower to Shower, from the market.<\/p>\n

J&J\u2019s LTL Management unit filed a new Chapter 11 case to provide a basis for the trust, which outlines terms for settling the decade-long litigation. An earlier filing, which didn\u2019t include a settlement, was rejected in January after an appeals court found J&J erred in using bankruptcy to block juries from hearing lawsuits and handing out damage awards. J&J wants a reorganization plan for LTL that caps all the talc liability.<\/p>\n

“Resolving this matter through the proposed reorganization plan is both more equitable and more efficient, allows claimants to be compensated in a timely manner,” Erik Haas, J&J\u2019s world-wide head of litigation, said in a release. Monies in the settlement will be paid out over 25 years.<\/p>\n

If enough victims agree to join the accord, J&J will be freed from defending against cancer claims tied to baby powder and others products tainted by asbestos. Juries ruled against the company in nearly a dozen such suits over the years \u2014 including one appealed all the way to the US Supreme Court \u2014 before J&J was forced to pay $2.5 billion to a group of 20 women whose case went to trial in 2018.<\/p>\n

Traces of Asbestos<\/b><\/p>\n

Women and men blamed J&J\u2019s 129-year-old baby powder for causing ovarian cancer and mesothelioma, a cancer specifically tied to asbestos exposure. Victims allege internal J&J documents dating back to the early 1970s show workers warning managers about traces of asbestos found in talc bottled for baby powder. The victims contend J&J executives should have warned consumers about the powders\u2019 health risks.<\/p>\n

“This is the largest products liability settlement ever realized after a bankruptcy filing,” said Mikal Watts, one of the plaintiff lawyers who negotiated the deal with J&J. “Our job is to get our clients restitution for their injuries, and this settlement is the culmination of over a decade of fighting for justice.”<\/p>\n

J&J argues the talc cases pose a financial threat to the company despite its more than $478 billion market capitalization. That\u2019s because juries could repeatedly hit J&J with multi-billion verdicts that threaten its financial health, its lawyers contend. The company also has suffered reputational harm tied to the talc findings.<\/p>\n

J&J has been criticized for using the bankruptcy courts to foster a settlement. Such filings allow firms to put suits on hold while a judge evaluates their value. Getting court approval for such trusts requires 75% of victims to vote in favor of having their claims through that process.<\/p>\n

Under the terms of the deal, J&J agreed to pay $6.5 billion to resolve current and future ovarian cases, provide $2 billion for current and future mesothelioma cases and hand over $400 million to states who\u2019ve sued J&J for failing to warn consumers about the health risks tied to its talc-based powders or threatened to sue, according to people familiar with the deal who asked not to be identified because the details aren\u2019t public.<\/p>\n

Opposing Deal<\/b><\/p>\n

J&J negotiated its new deal with lawyers outside the leadership group overseeing talc cases consolidated as a multi-district litigation (MDL) before a federal judge in New Jersey. Attorneys in the MDL said J&J isn\u2019t putting up enough money and ridiculed its repeated attempts to use the bankruptcy process to deny victims trials.<\/p>\n

“This second bad-faith bankruptcy is an attempt by J&J to bully cancer victims into accepting a low-ball deal that would leave most of them with staggering unpaid medical bills and lost wages,” Jason Itkin, a lawyer for claimants who oppose the deal, said in an email. “We believe this second bankruptcy will be dismissed just like the first one.”<\/p>\n

In its January ruling, the appeals court said J&J wrongly put its newly created unit, LTL Management, under court protection to deal with the talc litigation. The three-judge panel found since J&J agreed to set up a more than $61 billion backstop plan for its unit, the company wasn\u2019t in “financial distress” and didn\u2019t qualify for protection.<\/p>\n

Hours before the new case was filed, an official committee of talc claimants filed court papers arguing that a second Chapter 11 petition would be wrong. The group, which represented cancer victims in the first bankruptcy case, said the company should not be permitted to return to bankruptcy.<\/p>\n

The new filing should satisfy demands by the appeals court that rejected the first case, lawyers who crafted both Chapter 11 filings for J&J argued in court papers. In the latest case, the firm replaced the backstop agreement with the $8.9 billion settlement, J&J\u2019s lawyers said. The settlement funds will be LTL\u2019s only financial resource, they said.<\/p>\n

“I applaud Johnson & Johnson on finding a fair and equitable solution which closes a painful chapter for a lot of American women,” said Mark Lanier, a Texas-based lawyer who won a $4.7 billion verdict against the company in 2018 on behalf of 20 women who blamed their ovarian cancer on baby powder use.<\/p>\n

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