| 2026 | United States | Settlement | In July 2026, Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay an estimated $5.5 billion to resolve about 76,000 existing claims alleging that its talc-based products caused ovarian cancer. The agreement covers nearly Wikipedia: Johnson & Johnson（Recalls and litigation） | $5.5 billion |
| 2025 | United States | Settlement | In February 2025, as the number of talc-based powder-related lawsuits stood at over 62,000, Johnson & Johnson offered a $10 billion settlement to end litigation, funded by a subsidiary's Chapter 11 ba Wikipedia: Johnson & Johnson（Recalls and litigation） | — |
| 2025 | United States | Judgment against company | In October 2025, a Los Angeles court ordered J&J to pay $966 million to the family of a woman who died from mesothelioma in 2021. The ruling came days after a South Carolina court rejected a lawsuit b Wikipedia: Johnson & Johnson（Recalls and litigation） | $966 million |
| 2025 | United States | Judgment against company | In December 2025, a jury awarded $40 million to women who said talc was to blame for cancer. Wikipedia: Johnson & Johnson（Recalls and litigation） | $40 million |
| 2024-10-21 | United States | Other | Johnson & Johnson v. Wilson New Mexico Supreme Court | — |
| 2023 | United States | Settlement | In 2023, the number of lawsuits regarding talc-based baby powder exceeded 40,000 as more claimants came forward to say that the company's product caused them to have cancer. Johnson & Johnson offered Wikipedia: Johnson & Johnson（Recalls and litigation） | — |
| 2021-04-01 | United States | Other | Johnson & Johnson and Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies, Inc. v. Lynn Fitch, Attorney General of the State of Mississippi ex rel. State of Mississippi Mississippi Supreme Court | — |
| 2021 | United States | Filed / under investigation | In 2021, Johnson & Johnson subsidiary LTL Management LLC, using a process called a Texas two-step bankruptcy , filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in North Carolina . The process permitted by Texas law al Wikipedia: Johnson & Johnson（Recalls and litigation） | — |
| 2020 | United States | Judgment for company / dismissed | Conversely, a St. Louis jury ruled in favor of Johnson & Johnson in a case involving a single plaintiff who had used the company's talc-containing baby powder for 30 years, with a similar claim. The c Wikipedia: Johnson & Johnson（Recalls and litigation） | — |
| 2019 | United States | Settlement | In Idaho, J&J is part of a lawsuit accusing the company for being partially to blame for opioid-related overdose deaths. The first major trial began in Oklahoma in May 2019. On August 26, 2019, the Ok Wikipedia: Johnson & Johnson（Recalls and litigation） | $572 million / $20.4 million / $5 billion |
| 2019 | United States | Settlement | In October 2019, the company agreed to a settlement of $20.4 million with northeastern Ohio 's most populous counties of Cuyahoga (containing Cleveland ) and Summit ( Akron ). The settlement allows th Wikipedia: Johnson & Johnson（Recalls and litigation） + 1 more reports | $20.4 million / $10 million |
| 2018-03-30 | United States | Filed / under investigation | Trisvan v. Heyman District Court, E.D. New York | — |
| 2018 | United States | Judgment against company | A St. Louis jury awarded nearly $4.7 billion in damages to 22 women and their families in 2018 after they claimed that asbestos in Johnson & Johnson talcum powder caused their ovarian cancer. In Augus Wikipedia: Johnson & Johnson（Recalls and litigation） | $4.7 billion |
| 2018 | United States | Filed / under investigation | By 2018, the company had become embroiled in the opioid epidemic in the United States and had become a target of lawsuits . Wikipedia: Johnson & Johnson（Recalls and litigation） | — |
| 2017 | United States | Settlement | In May 2017, J&J reached an agreement to pay $33 million to several states to settle consumer fraud allegations in some of the company's over-the-counter drugs. Wikipedia: Johnson & Johnson（Recalls and litigation） + 1 more reports | $33 million |
| 2017 | Australia | Filed / under investigation | Tens of thousands of women worldwide have taken legal action against Johnson & Johnson after suffering serious complications following a vaginal mesh implant procedure. In Australia, more than 700 wom Wikipedia: Johnson & Johnson（Recalls and litigation） | — |
| 2016-07-22 | United States | Settlement | Johnson & Johnson Subsidiary Acclarent Inc. Pays Government $18 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations U.S. Department of Justice | $18 Million |
| 2016-03-24 | United States | Filed / under investigation | Brazil v. Janssen Research & Development LLC District Court, N.D. Georgia | — |
| 2016 | United States | Settlement | In 2016, California and Washington filed a lawsuit against the company, accusing it of deception. In October 2019, the company and its subsidiary, Ethicon , reached a settlement with 41 states and the Wikipedia: Johnson & Johnson（Recalls and litigation） | $117 million |
| 2016 | United States | Judgment against company | In 2016, J&J was ordered to pay $72 million in damages to the family of Jacqueline Fox, a 62-year-old woman who died of ovarian cancer in 2015. The company said it would appeal. A year later, over 1,0 Wikipedia: Johnson & Johnson（Recalls and litigation） | $72 million / $70 million |
| 2013-11-04 | United States | Settlement | Johnson & Johnson to Pay More Than $2.2 Billion to Resolve Criminal and Civil Investigations U.S. Department of Justice + 2 more reports | $2.2 Billion / $485 m / $1.673 billion |
| 2013-01-03 | United States | Guilty plea / conviction | Janssen Pharmaceuticals Pleads Guilty And Is Sentenced For Misbranding U.S. Department of Justice | $344 million / $66 million |
| 2013 | United States | Settlement | 2013 | Johnson & Johnson | $2.2 billion | Off-label promotion, kickbacks | Risperdal , Invega , Nesiritide | False Claims Act, FDCA Wikipedia: List of largest pharmaceutical settlements + 2 more reports | $2.2 billion / $485 million / $1.72 billion |
| 2013 | United States | Judgment against company | In March 2013, a jury in Los Angeles ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay more than $8.3 million in damages to a Montana man in the first related case. Wikipedia: Johnson & Johnson（Recalls and litigation） + 1 more reports | $8.3 million |
| 2013 | United States | Settlement | The issue was estimated to affect 8,000 patients in the U.S. In November 2013, the company announced a settlement of the issue in the U.S., estimating a cost of $2.5 billion. Wikipedia: Johnson & Johnson（Recalls and litigation） + 1 more reports | $2.5 billion |
| 2012-08-31 | United States | Filed / under investigation | Caldwell ex rel. State v. Janssen Pharmaceutical, Inc. Louisiana Court of Appeal | — |
| 2011-10-05 | United States | Guilty plea / conviction | Johnson & Johnson Subsidiary Scios Pleads Guilty to Misbranding Heart Failure Drug Natrecor U.S. Department of Justice | $85 million |
| 2011-08-31 | United States | Other | Commonwealth v. Tap Pharmaceutical Products, Inc. Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania | — |
| 2011-08-31 | United States | Other | Com. v. TAP PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS, INC. Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania | — |
| 2011-04-08 | United States | Settlement | Johnson & Johnson Agrees to Pay $21.4 Million Criminal Penalty to Resolve Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and Oil for Food Investigations U.S. Department of Justice | $21.4 Million |
| 2011 | United States | Settlement | In 2011, J&J settled litigation brought by the US Securities and Exchange Commission under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and paid around $70M in disgorgement and fines. J&J's employees had given k Wikipedia: Johnson & Johnson（Recalls and litigation） + 1 more reports | $70M |
| 2010-04-29 | United States | Settlement | Two Johnson & Johnson Subsidiaries to Pay Over $81 Million to Resolve Allegations of Off-Label Promotion of Topamax U.S. Department of Justice + 1 more reports | $81 Million / $6.14 million |
| 2010 | United States | Filed / under investigation | In 2010, a group of shareholders sued the board for allegedly failing to take action to prevent serious failings and illegalities since the 1990s, including manufacturing problems, bribing officials, Wikipedia: Johnson & Johnson（Recalls and litigation） + 1 more reports | — |
| 2010 | United States | Settlement | In 2010, the United States Department of Justice joined a whistleblowers suit accusing the company of illegally marketing Risperdal through Omnicare , the largest company supplying pharmaceuticals to Wikipedia: Johnson & Johnson（Recalls and litigation） + 2 more reports | $2.2 billion / $485 million / $1.72 billion |
| 2009-07-22 | United States | Filed / under investigation | Wolicki-Gables v. Arrow International, Inc. District Court, M.D. Florida | — |
| 2009-02-19 | United States | Filed / under investigation | United States Joins Suits Against Scios and Johnson & Johnson U.S. Department of Justice | — |
| 2007-06-21 | United States | Other | In Re Pharmaceutical Industry Average Wholesale Price Litigation District Court, D. Massachusetts | — |
| 2007 | United States | Settlement | In August 2007, Johnson & Johnson filed a lawsuit against the American Red Cross, demanding that the charity halt the use of the red cross symbol on products it sells to the public, though the company Wikipedia: Johnson & Johnson（Recalls and litigation） | — |
| 2007 | United States | Judgment for company / dismissed | In 2007, Johnson & Johnson sued Abbott Laboratories over the development and sale of Humira , claiming Abbott used technology licensed exclusively to Johnson & Johnson's Centocor division. Johnson & J Wikipedia: Johnson & Johnson（Recalls and litigation） | — |
| 2006 | United States | Settlement | Separately, Johnson & Johnson sued Guidant and Abbott Laboratories in 2006, alleging that Guidant had breached its merger agreement with Johnson & Johnson before being acquired by Boston Scientific. T Wikipedia: Johnson & Johnson（Recalls and litigation） + 1 more reports | — |
| 2004-08-05 | United States | Judgment for company / dismissed | Janssen Pharmaceutica, Inc. v. Bailey Mississippi Supreme Court | — |
| 2004-02-19 | United States | Judgment for company / dismissed | Janssen Pharmaceutica, Inc. v. Armond Mississippi Supreme Court | — |
| 2003-02-24 | United States | Other | Janssen Pharmaceutica, Inc. v. Colantha Armond Mississippi Supreme Court | — |
| 2003 | United States | Settlement | Beginning in 2003, Johnson & Johnson and Boston Scientific were involved in a series of patent disputes involving coronary stents and related medical devices. In September 2009, Boston Scientific agre Wikipedia: Johnson & Johnson（Recalls and litigation） + 1 more reports | — |
| 2003 | United States | Judgment against company | The company lost its request to reverse a jury verdict that ruled in favor of the accusers, which required the company to pay $4.14 billion in punitive damages and $550 million in compensatory damages Wikipedia: Johnson & Johnson（Recalls and litigation） | $4.14 billion / $550 million |
| 2001-09-29 | United States | Other | Janssen Pharmaceutica, Inc. v. Robert Bailey Mississippi Supreme Court | — |
| 1995-04-21 | United States | Filed / under investigation | W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. v. Johnson & Johnson District Court, D. Delaware | — |