LTL Management Asks Bankruptcy Court to Enforce Automatic Stay Against Talc Claimants

CHARLOTTE, N.C. –– LTL Management, the subsidiary recently created by Johnson & Johnson that will house all talcum powder claims, has filed an emergency motion to enforce the automatic stay against talc claimants, saying plaintiffs have “no intention of respecting the Debtor’s notice of the automatic stay and instead will continue to pursue their talc claims against the Debtor….”

In the Oct. 18 emergency motion filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of North Carolina, LTL Management argued that “permitting the continued piecemeal litigation of such claims in the tort system notwithstanding the automatic stay would undoubtedly …