J&J'sThis $5.5 billion settlement resolves 99.75 percent of remaining talc claims and closes a decade-long legal battle that courts were already tilting against plaintiffs. A federal judge recently cast doubt on whether individual claimants could even prove talc caused their ovarian cancer, and J&J had won the vast majority of cases that went to trial. This settlement delivers real money to claimants, whileeven though the science never actually supported the core allegations.