Brian Glasser Quoted by Bloomberg Law on J&J’s Failed Bid to End Talc Suits

Founding partner Brian Glasser is quoted by Bloomberg Law in its “deep dive” article about this week’s Texas bankruptcy court rejection of the third attempt by Johnson & Johnson to dispose of talc-related claims through the bankruptcy process entitled: “ J&J’s Failed Bid to End Talc Suits Is Bankruptcy Voting Lesson.”

Brian A. Glasser co-led the trial team on behalf of the Coalition for Justice for Talc Claimants which opposed the plan, and in this article emphasized the need for court-supervised vote solicitation in mass tort cases to ensure transparency and legitimacy, stating “If you want to do a pre-packaged mass tort bankruptcy, you need to vote as clean as Caesar’s wife.”

Read the full Bloomberg Law article here: https://ow.ly/AUnS50Vuaii

The federal bankruptcy judge dismissed J&J’s case on Monday, ruling that cancer victims’ vote on a $9 billion talc litigation settlement was flawed, citing serious concerns about the voting process. The court found that many votes were cast by attorneys on behalf of clients without proper consent and that the rushed timeline prevented meaningful participation by thousands of claimants.

J&J was trying for the third time to use a subsidiary, Red River Talc LLC, to resolve tens of thousands of lawsuits brought by women who say the company’s talc-based products, including baby powder, contained asbestos that caused cancer.

The Coalition of Counsel for Justice for Talc Claimants trial team was co-led by Bailey & Glasser founding partner Brian A. Glasser, Mass Torts Practice Group Leader David L. Selby, ESI Practice Group Leader Katherine E. Charonko, and litigator Elizabeth L. Stryker. Additional members of the BG team includes Bankruptcy Practice Group Leader Jonathan Gold, partners D. Todd Mathews and Joshua Hammack, and Of Counsels Thomas B. Bennett and Michael Shenkman.

The trial team was also led by Adam C. Silverstein, Melanie L. Cyganowski, Sunni P. Beville, David A. Castleman and Jennifer S. Feeney of Otterbourg PC; Nicholas R. Lawson and Avi Moshenberg of Lawson & Moshenberg PLLC; Andy Birchfield and Leigh O’Dell of Beasley Allen; and Richard Golomb of Golomb Legal.

To read the court’s full opinion and to learn more about Bailey Glasser’s work on behalf of the plaintiffs, visit: https://www.baileyglasser.com/news-bg-wins-dismissal-of-Johnson-and-Johnson-third-bankruptcyhttps://ow.ly/1xY850Vuaik 

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