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What We’ve Accomplished and Are Accomplishing TOGETHER is Huge.
When we look back through the last years, we feel a sense of wonder at the deep connection that has grown between us and so many women looking for help when they’ve been hurt by abusive powers.
10
Years we have been helping people
200,000
People have contacted us for help
80
People work at ACFW
40,000
People We Have Helped Access Life-Changing Legal Action
50
Case areas we’ve worked on
200
Law firms we’ve worked with
A Case for Women started as a big idea from a mother-daughter, then quickly became a larger group of women who were sick of the same old rhetoric – “just deal with it,” “nothing’s gonna’ change” etc.
So we decided to change it: the system that has kept women in the dark for so long about the life-changing power of civil legal action.
What we want is to see you reclaim + flourish in your own power again after being blindsided. That is what we call taking care of your whole, truest self in the highest form + that is exactly the mission we launched in 2015. Thank you for coming aboard with us, because it takes us supporting each other.
You Come First, But It’s Even Bigger Than You
While our immediate goal is always HELPING YOU get compensated for what you’ve had to survive, the long term play here is to use civil lawsuits as a financial lever to change corporate behavior.
Here’s just a few examples of how individual lawsuits have resulted in systemic change:
ESSURE was a dangerous medical birth control device aggressively marketed to women. To have so many amazing, strong, healthy women (39,000 lawsuits resolved in August 2020)1 suffer from a (supposedly) permanent contraceptive implant was unthinkable. But even more unthinkable was having a major pharmaceutical company – BAYER – take part in the injuries by knowing the potential danger yet failing to warn consumers.2
The Essure lawsuit was our first, bringing many voices together and helping make enough noise to force Bayer to remove Essure devices from US shelves on December 31, 2018.
TALCUM POWDER was sold by Johnson & Johnson despite knowing since 1957-1958 that talcum, the central ingredient, could be tainted with hazardous asbestos that naturally occurs next to it underground.3 Such a massive number of women (more than 60,000 cases pending)4 suffered from cancer after using the powder that a scientific link was finally established in the early 1970s and the first cancer lawsuit was filed in 2009.5
A flood of lawsuits put pressure on J&J to stop using talc-laced baby powder in the US + Canada in 2020.6 On August 11, 2022, the company announced it would reformulate baby powder globally to include cornstarch instead of talc, basing the decision, executives said, on tens of thousands of women alleging their ovarian cancer developed from exposure to asbestos in the powder.7
LARRY NASSAR was accused by brave young gymnasts, including Olympic medalists, of sexual assault under the guise of medical treatment; immediately, new safety policies were created at Michigan State University,8 where Nassar had practiced as an osteopathic physician, and at USA Gymnastics, where he served as team physician, to make medical exams safer for women and infuse cultural change.9
The Best Results of All?
Hearing From The Many Women We Have Helped.
We Are Changing the World, Together.
Our mission has always and will always be to help empower women/ you – however we can – from our heart, especially when you are hurting. Operative word: help. As long as we are helping you – because we want to – we believe the numbers will grow.
We are moving the needle.
Sources
- Elizabeth Cohen, Aaron Kessler, video by John Bonifield, “CNN Exclusive: Bayer paid doctors millions for questionable birth control device,” CNN, July 28, 2018.
- Ibid.
- Lisa Girion, “Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its baby powder ,” Reuters, December 14, 2018.
- Jeff Feeley, “J&J Spars With Foes of $9 Billion Talc Cancer Plan as Trial Ends,” Bloomberg, February 28, 2025.
- Annalee Armstrong, “16 Years And 3 Texas Two-Steps Later, J&J’s Talc Lawsuit Awaits Key Ruling,” Biospace, March 12, 2025.
- Vaness Romo, “Johnson & Johnson Stops Selling Talc-Based Baby Powder In U.S. And Canada,” NPR, May 19, 2020.
- Tiffany Hsu, Roni Karyn Rabin, “Johnson & Johnson Will Discontinue Talc-Based Baby Powder Globally in 2023,” New York Times, August 11, 2022.
- Annalee Armstrong, “Here’s what Michigan State University has done since Larry Nassar’s trial,” CNN, February 14, 2018.
- Ari Shapiro, “Years after the Larry Nassar scandal, are Olympic athletes safe from abuse?” NPR, April 10, 2025.
