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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.
March 27, 2020 | Law.com
As class actions over COVID-19 already hit court dockets, lawyers expect to see more lawsuits over price gouging and health claims.
By Amanda Bronstad
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March 25, 2020 | New Jersey Law Journal
A federal judge has dismissed a legal malpractice lawsuit against six law firms in New Jersey and Texas accused of using invalid retainer agreements to charge excessive contingency fees for thousands of clients suing over transvaginal mesh devices. The firms included Nagel Rice and the Potts Law Firm.
By Amanda Bronstad
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March 18, 2020 | New Jersey Law Journal
"Old people get infections," said Michael Brusca, of Davis & Brusca. "The issue you are looking at is, how did they respond to the infection?"
By Amanda Bronstad
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March 10, 2020 | New Jersey Law Journal
The order approved a special master's report last month that recommended a disbursement including $182.5 million in "common benefit" fees to about 40 law firms whose work assisted in 10,000 lawsuits over DePuy's Pinnacle hip implant.
By Amanda Bronstad
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March 3, 2020 | Law.com
The fees come from more than $690 million in settlements so far involving two counties in Ohio and the state of Oklahoma.
By Amanda Bronstad
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February 28, 2020 | Law.com
In an effort to reach a potential $22 billion cash global settlement of opioid lawsuits, lawyers are clashing over who should get attorney fees. Dozens of states, cities and counties have opposed a proposed 7% hold back on opioid settlements that would pay for common benefit fees and costs incurred by lead counsel in the multidistrict litigation.
By Amanda Bronstad
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February 24, 2020 | Law.com
A lead plaintiffs lawyer said the verdict could boost dozens of other lawsuits filed over Monsanto's dicamba herbicide, while Bayer insisted the case was an anomaly. Unlike cancer claims associated with Roundup, the cases allege dicamba herbicide sprayed by farmers drifted into neighboring fields, causing damages to their crops.
By Amanda Bronstad
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February 10, 2020 | The Recorder
In a brief before California's First District Court of Appeal on Friday, Bayer insisted that "egregious and pervasive misconduct" by plaintiffs counsel infected the trial.
By Amanda Bronstad
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February 10, 2020 | New Jersey Law Journal
The defendants supported the District of New Jersey, where Sanofi has its U.S. headquarters, or the Southern District of New York, home to Pfizer. The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation chose the Southern District of Florida.
By Amanda Bronstad
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February 7, 2020 | New Jersey Law Journal
In the final hours before the jury's verdict on Thursday, lawyers had raised objections and a mistrial motion, and the judge made two curative instructions for the jury to ignore the attacks the attorneys had made about each other.
By Amanda Bronstad
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