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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 26, 2020 | Law.com
Bayer, which owns Monsanto, said it agreed in June to pay up to $10.9 billion to resolve Roundup claims "without regard to race or any other demographics." But in a new civil rights lawsuit, attorney Ben Crump said failures to warn fell more heavily on Black farmers with smaller acreage.
By Amanda Bronstad
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August 26, 2020 | Law.com
Deal over sterilization device took shape while parties were immersed in extended trial preparation, plaintiffs' counsel says
By Amanda Bronstad
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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
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August 12, 2020 | Law.com
"To say this litigation would result in a complicated MDL seems an understatement," wrote the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation in an order Wednesday rejecting coordination of lawsuits brought by small businesses against more than 100 insurance firms. But the panel opened the door for MDLs against specific insurers.
By Amanda Bronstad
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August 12, 2020 | Law.com
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
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July 29, 2020 | Law.com
The "Securities Class Action Filings – 2020 Midyear Assessment," compiled by Cornerstone Research and the Stanford Law School Securities Class Action Clearinghouse, found that there were 182 new class action securities filings through June 30, an 18% decrease from the second half of 2019 and the lowest since the end of 2016.
By Amanda Bronstad
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June 19, 2020 | Law.com
Nicholas Coulson, of Liddle & Dubin, who claims to have 12 of the 38 class actions filed against airlines over their alleged failure to provide passenger refunds, is the latest attorney to ask the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation to coordinate cases relating to COVID-19.
By Amanda Bronstad
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May 28, 2020 | Texas Lawyer
Although a nationwide opioid settlement is not a done deal, "we are very close," said Mikal Watts, of Watts Guerra, whose firm represented more than a dozen counties in the Texas agreement.
By Amanda Bronstad
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April 23, 2020 | Law.com
Efforts to coordinate business-interruption lawsuits against insurance firms focus on 16 cases so far filed in federal courts against eight insurance firms, but Richard Golomb, of Golomb & Honik, predicts an "avalanche of cases."
By Amanda Bronstad
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April 17, 2020 | Texas Lawyer
Four law firms have filed separate class actions against six different insurers, alleging they denied business interruption claims filed by thousands of small businesses across the country. The lead plaintiffs include La Luz Ultralounge in Bonita, California, and Nick's New Haven Style Pizzeria & Bar in Coral Springs and Boca Raton, Florida.
By Amanda Bronstad
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