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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.
December 6, 2022 | Delaware Business Court Insider
"The effects of these decisions could reverberate across the country," said Ericka Johnson, a partner at Womble Bond Dickinson.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
August 17, 2022 | Delaware Business Court Insider
Opioid drug manufacturer Endo Pharmaceuticals filed a Chapter 11 petition late Tuesday, agreeing to provide $450 million to state and local governments.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
April 28, 2022 | Delaware Business Court Insider
Several prominent plaintiffs attorneys like Mikal Watts and Paul Napoli have relocated to Puerto Rico. Now, they and others are pitching an inaugural Mass Torts Puerto Rico conference next week in San Juan.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
March 11, 2022 | Delaware Business Court Insider
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
January 21, 2022 | Delaware Business Court Insider
Laura Davis Jones, a partner at Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones in Wilmington, Delaware, said at the hearing that the dual committees would "foster division, not compromise," and create an "enhanced footing of one subset of talc claimants."
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
December 21, 2021 | Delaware Business Court Insider
Lawyers for talc claimants have moved to dismiss the Chapter 11 case, filed by LTL Management, a newly created subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, to resolve more than 38,000 lawsuits alleging that its talcum powder products cause ovarian cancer or mesothelioma.
By Amanda Bronstad
9 minute read
November 11, 2021 | Delaware Business Court Insider
Two related bankruptcies were in nearby Delaware, and about 35,000 of the lawsuits were in multidistrict litigation in New Jersey.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
October 27, 2021 | Delaware Business Court Insider
Joseph Satterley, of Kazan, McClain, Satterley & Greenwood in Oakland, said Johnson and Johnson "cherry-picked" a court in North Carolina, which did not pay off.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
October 18, 2021 | Delaware Business Court Insider
The plan is to compensate plaintiffs with current and future tort claims through a $2 billion trust fund, according to bankruptcy filings.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
August 24, 2021 | Delaware Business Court Insider
Four law firms preparing for a talcum powder trial next month against Johnson & Johnson filed an emergency motion and petition Tuesday to prevent the company's potential bankruptcy filing, which would halt their lawsuit and potentially that of tens of thousands of other cases. A Delaware bankruptcy judge recently heard arguments over the restructuring plan.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
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