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Amanda Bronstad is the ALM staff reporter covering class actions and mass torts nationwide. She writes the email dispatch Law.com Class Actions: Critical Mass. She is based in Los Angeles.
August 18, 2023 | New Jersey Law Journal
Lead attorneys in the talc multidistrict litigation, vowing to "proceed with alacrity," already have proposed a bellwether trial plan, which Johnson & Johnson opposed this week.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
July 19, 2023 | The Recorder
Some legal experts say Tuesday's verdict could make it harder for Johnson & Johnson to finalize its proposed $8.9 billion settlement in the Chapter 11 talc case.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
July 19, 2023 | New Jersey Law Journal
The case is the first talc trial in nearly two years involving Johnson & Johnson's baby powder.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
July 7, 2023 | New Jersey Law Journal
Johnson & Johnson subsidiary LTL Management filed a second fraud lawsuit on Friday against three plaintiffs' experts who authored a 2020 report linking its talcum powder products to mesothelioma.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
July 6, 2023 | Law.com
Frank, of the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute and the Center for Class Action Fairness, filed his opening brief on Wednesday before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, which reversed another settlement three months ago because the lead plaintiffs lacked standing.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
July 3, 2023 | Law.com
Lawyers say Bard's PowerPort devices, which pump intravenous chemotherapy and other fluids injected into the bloodstream, could generate up to 10,000 lawsuits.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
June 27, 2023 | New Jersey Law Journal
Starting on Tuesday, U.S. Chief Bankruptcy Judge Michael Kaplan will hear four days of arguments and testimony on whether to dismiss the second Chapter 11 case of Johnson & Johnson subsidiary LTL Management.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
June 20, 2023 | Law.com
In multidistrict litigation dockets created in 2022, about 13% of plaintiffs lawyers appointed to leadership posts were not white, according to Law.com's exclusive data. That's down from the 16% in 2021, and 14% in 2020, but up from 2016 to 2019, when white attorneys dominated with 95% of appointments.
By Amanda Bronstad
9 minute read
May 31, 2023 | The Recorder
Allison Brown, a lawyer for Johnson & Johnson, questioned the facts of the case, which is in California's Alameda County Superior Court: She noted that many of the stores where the plaintiff's mother testified she bought its baby powder were more than 100 miles from her house.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
May 23, 2023 | New Jersey Law Journal
The judge denied a demand from defendants to disclose of 33 individuals in a plaintiff's expert's 2019 report, used in talc cases nationwide to link cosmetic talc to mesothelioma.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
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