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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 27, 2020 | The Recorder
Two months after Bayer agreed to resolve thousands of lawsuits brought over Monsanto's Roundup herbicide, lawyers told a federal judge Thursday that most of the settlements have unraveled. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, who oversees the Roundup MDL, gave lawyers until Sept. 24 but said he might lift a stay on litigation and set cases for trial.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
August 17, 2020 | Law.com
Data gathered by Law.com shows very little progress in ethnic diversity of MDL leadership teams: only 5% of appointments, on average, went to lawyers who identified as "nonwhite" in MDLs created from 2016 through 2019.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
August 13, 2020 | New Jersey Law Journal
The case now before the court involves 22 plaintiffs who have alleged they, or their decedents, got ovarian cancer after using Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder products.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
August 5, 2020 | Law.com
In its first orders related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation refused on Wednesday to coordinate cases brought against banks over their handling of COVID-19 relief loans to small businesses, citing the small number of cases and varied experiences of the plaintiff applicants.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
July 30, 2020 | Law.com
Most of the judicial panel's questions were directed at attorneys seeking consolidation, often asking about what the common facts would be and what would happen to litigation against insurers that are facing only a handful of claims. Some judges also appeared skeptical about how consolidation could benefit such a vast group of cases.
By Amanda Bronstad | Max Mitchell
1 minute read
July 16, 2020 | Law.com
Plaintiffs bar groups opposing legal immunity for businesses are insisting that the feared tide of COVID-19 litigation does not exist–and they are turning to a defense law firm's database to prove it.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
July 8, 2020 | The Recorder
The notice of withdrawal came two days after a federal judge said he was likely to deny approval of the settlement, which Bayer reached last month to cap subsidiary Monsanto's liability over future Roundup claims.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
June 30, 2020 | Law.com
The class action settlement, which faces judicial scrutiny and the potential that objectors could unravel the deal, includes a controversial science panel that some lawyers criticized. The deal also provides up to $150 million in attorney fees.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
June 23, 2020 | Law.com
A Missouri appeals court has reduced a $4.7 billion talcum powder verdict to $2.1 billion but refused to toss punitive damages altogether, concluding that the evidence at trial showed Johnson & Johnson's conduct was "outrageous because of evil motive or reckless indifference."
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
June 15, 2020 | New Jersey Law Journal
In a footnote, U.S. Magistrate Judge James Clark wrote, "the court cautions that plaintiff's allegations regarding defendant's conduct, if true, demonstrate behavior unbecoming of litigants," in a decision that affects more than a dozen lawsuits involving medical technology firm Stryker Orthopaedics.
By Amanda Bronstad
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