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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.
May 27, 2022 | Law.com
Thursday's order, by U.S. District Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer, in Chicago, followed a fight between two competing lawyer teams who traded barbs over diversity and size.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
May 26, 2022 | Law.com
Mounting lawsuits cite a "pattern of conduct" involving Abbott's plant in Sturgis, Michigan, which was shut down amid a Feb. 17 recall of its infant formula products.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
April 19, 2022 | Law.com
A growing list of consumer products are now being targeted in lawsuits for containing PFAS, or polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as "forever chemicals."
By Amanda Bronstad
7 minute read
April 14, 2022 | New Jersey Law Journal
Chief Bankruptcy Judge Michael Kaplan on Wednesday granted a motion declaring that the automatic stay of 38,000 talcum powder lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson did not apply to a proposed class action.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
April 1, 2022 | Law.com
On Thursday, plaintiffs' lawyers who obtained a $92 million class action settlement with TikTok said that 1.4% of the class had submitted claims.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
March 11, 2022 | Law.com
The fees and costs outlined in the $26 billion opioid deal with Johnson & Johnson's Janssen Pharmaceuticals and three distributors are a mix of common benefit fees, contingency fees and payments to the states for outside counsel. One law professor said, "it's not like the lawyers are going to be impoverished."
By Amanda Bronstad
9 minute read
March 3, 2022 | Law.com
At least four class actions and one pre-suit petition have been filed over a Feb. 17 recall that Abbott announced after three babies were hospitalized and one died after ingesting its Similac, Alimentum and EleCare brands of infant formula.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
February 25, 2022 | New Jersey Law Journal
Johnson & Johnson and three drug distributors—AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson—agreed on Friday to move forward with the second largest multistate settlement in U.S. history after 90% of cities and counties signed up to obtain funds to combat the opioid crisis.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
February 25, 2022 | New Jersey Law Journal
U.S. District Chief Judge Michael B. Kaplan of the District of New Jersey also extended a stay pausing nearly 38,000 lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson until June 29.
By Avalon Zoppo | Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
February 24, 2022 | Law.com
Drug companies must decide by Friday whether to move forward with, or walk away from, funds that would compensate nearly all 50 states and U.S. territories for costs incurred by the opioid crisis.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
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