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Talc Mesothelioma Lawsuits Surge 47%: If You Used Baby Powder or Cosmetics and Received a Mesothelioma Diagnosis, This Is What You Need to Know If you are reading this page, someone you love — or you yourself — has been diagnosed with mesothelioma, and you cannot figure out how. You never worked in a shipyard. You never installed insulation. You never spent a day in a refinery or a steel mill. You are a woman, or your mother was, or your wife was — and the doctors say the cancer in the lining of your lungs came from asbestos. You are holding a bottle of baby powder in your hand and the question is forming: Could this have done it? The answer, according to the sharpest single-year jump in talc lawsuit filings on record, is yes. A 2025 asbestos litigation report documented a 47% surge in asbestos-contaminated talc lawsuit filings in a single year — the steepest increase ever recorded in this category. Talc-only claims now account for 9% of all asbestos cases nationally. Forty percent of all mesothelioma lawsuits filed in 2025 included a talc exposure claim — up from just 16% in 2019. And the face of the…