A long-running legal battle over Montana talc, asbestos exposure and the Barretts Minerals bankruptcy could be nearing a ...

A defunct talc-mining subsidiary of a global minerals supplier will make its case Monday for remaining in chapter 11 against personal injury claimants who argue it has no right to bankruptcy ...

Experts studying the health risks of talc have prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to reevaluate its presence in candy, other foods, and medications. There is a prevalence of talc in our ...

For over a decade, talc litigation has been a staple of mass toxic tort practices around the country and persists today. For those who are unfamiliar, talc is a naturally occurring mineral rock mined ...

India, April 14 -- A recent systematic review and meta-analysis confirms that occupational exposure to asbestos-free talc does not increase the likelihood of developing respiratory or lung cancer, or ...

Riverspan Partners has purchased bankrupt Barretts Minerals, a high-purity talc mining and processing company, the first investment for the Chicago-based private-equity firm company. The deal was ...

NEW YORK, June 26, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Minerals Technologies Inc. (MTX) (“MTI” or “the Company”) today announced that its subsidiary, Barretts Minerals Inc. (“BMI”), will exit the talc business.

A Texas judge declined to toss a defunct talc supplier out of bankruptcy despite arguments from personal-injury claimants that it was improperly using chapter 11 to protect its solvent parent company, ...