TREE NEWS reports: L’Oreal’s US subsidiary has hired WilmerHale and Dusseldorf-based law firm Dussela Partners to handle personal-injury lawsuits over its talc-containing products, and is considering spinning off and selling the related tort liabilities into a separate legal entity. As of June 30, about 760 talc-related lawsuits alleging asbestos particles in cosmetics were pending in the US, up from roughly 620 at end-2025. L’Oreal China said products sold through official domestic channels meet national standards.
L’Oreal Faces Rising US Talc Lawsuits; China Unit Says Products Safe
AI take
The legal-engineering move — outside counsel plus a possible tort-liability spin-off — signals L'Oreal is treating talc exposure as a structural balance-sheet issue, not a routine litigation line. The rising US case count matters most for insurers, litigation funders and any counterparty asked to absorb those liabilities, while the China unit's statement of compliance draws a deliberate line between markets. Whether the spin-off proceeds, and whether claim volumes keep climbing, is the open question.
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