-
January 23, 2026
OAKLAND, Calif. — The last remaining defendant in an asbestos-talc trial in California that started in December asked the court for 10 minutes to finalize a settlement and after a short break notified the court that the parties resolved their differences.
-
January 21, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — A judge in Louisiana entered judgment in favor of a mesothelioma sufferer and against Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. for more than $12.5 million after finding it liable for exposing the office manager to asbestos in brake products.
-
January 20, 2026
WILMINGTON, Del. — A Delaware federal bankruptcy judge’s ruling confirming the Chapter 11 plan of liquidation for asbestos talc debtor AIO US Inc. should be overturned because the order exceeded the court’s authority, nondebtor insurers say in the opening brief in their appeal of the confirmation decision to a federal district court.
-
January 15, 2026
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Insurers of Chapter 11 debtor Hopeman Brothers Inc. do not have bankruptcy appellate standing to challenge a Virginia federal bankruptcy court’s appointment of a legal representative for future asbestos claimants in the debtor’s case, a federal judge in the state said in granting Hopeman’s motion to dismiss the appeal.
-
January 13, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 12 declined to review a South Carolina judge’s ruling appointing a receiver over Canadian defendant Atlas Turner Inc.’s asbestos-related insurance assets, a practice the company described in its briefing as “astonishing.”
-
January 13, 2026
LANCASTER, Pa. — Burnham Holdings Inc. (BHI) announced it would restructure, divest its asbestos-related liabilities and take other steps to streamline and optimize operations.
-
January 08, 2026
TRENTON, N.J. — The New Jersey federal judge hearing a fraud case filed by Johnson & Johnson (J&J) spinoff and Chapter 11 debtor Pecos River Talc LLC against the author of a scientific study on asbestos in talc products told the parties that she intends to grant the debtor relief from her dismissal of the suit and allow it to amend its complaint after the company presented new evidence.
-
January 07, 2026
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — A defendant family company that won dismissal of a fraudulent transfer suit filed by the Chapter 7 trustee for asbestos debtor The Nash Engineering Co. seeking the return of more than $59 million from a holding company and its members to the debtor’s estate has filed an answer to the trustee’s third amended complaint, denying all allegations against it rather than seeking dismissal again.
-
December 24, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A judge’s ruling appointing a receiver over a foreign company’s insurance assets regardless of where those assets exist was improper and conflicts with various other court rulings, a Canadian asbestos defendant tells the U.S. Supreme Court in a reply in support of its petition for a writ of certiorari.
-
December 23, 2025
As of Dec. 19, 52 federal court decisions have referenced the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2024 holding in an asbestos bankruptcy case that an insurer with financial responsibility for bankruptcy claims qualifies as a party in interest with standing to comment on a debtor’s plan of reorganization, rejecting the “insurance neutrality” doctrine that had barred such participation, according to a Shepard’s analysis of the high court’s opinion.
-
December 23, 2025
BALTIMORE — A Maryland jury on Dec. 22 awarded a mesothelioma sufferer who operates a nonprofit supporting children $1.5 billion in punitive damages plus compensatory damages for asbestos exposure linked to Johnson & Johnson entities’ talc products.
-
December 22, 2025
ST. PAUL, Minn. — A Minnesota jury on Dec. 19 awarded a 37-year-old woman and her husband more than $65.5 million for peritoneal mesothelioma she developed after exposure to asbestos in Johnson & Johnson consumer talc.
-
December 22, 2025
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — A federal judge in Connecticut dismissed a fraudulent transfer complaint filed by the Chapter 7 trustee for asbestos debtor The Nash Engineering Co. seeking the return of more than $59 million from a holding company and its members to the debtor’s estate but allowed the trustee to amend the complaint to make clear that a family company, which had sought dismissal, is a proper defendant.
-
December 16, 2025
BATON ROUGE, La. — After parties indicated they had reached a settlement, a Louisiana federal judge dismissed claims against certain of the parties in an asbestos liability suit against individuals and multiple entities, including the Louisiana Guaranty Association (LIGA), alleging that a man’s workplace exposure to asbestos particles resulted in his lung disease and death.
-
December 16, 2025
LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles jury hearing the first two asbestos-talc ovarian cancer bellwether cases found against Johnson & Johnson and handed the plaintiffs $18 million and $22 million awards.
-
December 11, 2025
LONDON — Scottish law governing damages specifically permits the family of a deceased man to seek damages despite his previous settlement discharging his employer’s liability for any future mesothelioma, the United Kingdom Supreme Court held Dec. 10.
-
December 10, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court should not review an interlocutory ruling appointing a receiver over a Canadian company’s insurance assets related to an asbestos claim, the respondent and the receiver tell the court in opposing the company’s petition for a writ of certiorari.
-
December 09, 2025
LOS ANGELES — A federal bankruptcy judge in California entered a final decree and order closing the Chapter 11 Subchapter V asbestos talc case of family-run cosmetics business Ben Nye Co. Inc., whose founder gained fame through his work on motion pictures and was forced into filing for bankruptcy protection for his company by asbestos personal injury litigation.
-
December 08, 2025
NEW ORLEANS — The inequity in preventing a shipyard operator from pursuing its asbestos-related crossclaim against a bankrupt subcontractor’s insurer warrants extending a stay of a tort action for only a brief time, a federal judge in Louisiana said in granting the shipyard company’s motion to reinstate the stay.
-
December 08, 2025
TRENTON, N.J. — The author of a scientific study filed a supplemental brief in New Jersey federal court in further opposition to claims by Johnson & Johnson (J&J) spinoff Pecos River Talc LLC that she fabricated her finding that asbestos disease sufferers in her study were exposed to asbestos from only talcum powder use, saying the company’s supplemental filing “provides no basis to reopen this court’s judgment” dismissing Pecos River’s fraud and trade libel suit.
-
December 05, 2025
PHILADELPHIA — Allowing asbestos talc debtors Imerys Talc America Inc. and Cyprus Mines Corp. to enter into a $280 million settlement with talc seller Johnson & Johnson (J&J) for a dispute over indemnification rights for defense of asbestos personal injury claims without paying the debtors’ insurers anything for their subrogation rights “is not only contrary to well-established insurance law, but also counter to strong public policy regarding the nature and purpose of insurance,” the insurers say in their opening brief in their appeal in the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
-
December 04, 2025
NEW ORLEANS — An insurer in a Dec. 3 response asks for clarification of the period for which insured seeks prejudgment interest after a federal judge in Louisiana entered final judgment for an asbestos defendant on a $338,000 breach of contract claim.
-
December 02, 2025
NEW YORK — A man’s drug use and convictions from nearly 30 years earlier are not relevant to the central questions in an asbestos lung cancer case and occurred too long ago to be admissible for impeachment purposes, a New York justice said in granting a motion in limine to exclude reference to the evidence at trial.
-
December 01, 2025
NEW ORLEANS — Various groups’ challenges to the Environmental Protection Agency’s rule banning the use of asbestos in the United States are back on after the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals granted an unopposed motion to lift a stay of the consolidated cases.
-
November 25, 2025
NEW YORK — Northwell Health Inc. must produce all the information it has about two studies performed by expert Jacqueline Moline investigating mesothelioma sufferers whose only known exposure to asbestos was allegedly through talc, a New York justice said in granting a motion to compel.