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Exploring whether and how funders are investing in cases with public health and environmental remediation elements, and what effect funding has.
By Joshua A. Bloom | December 22, 2017
Although the law has helped reduce the amount of harmful chemicals in some consumer products, in most cases there has been no meaningful benefit. At the same time it has generated a cottage industry of citizen plaintiffs and attorneys.
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By Andrew Denney | December 19, 2017
An effort by plaintiffs to move a class action suit over alleged contamination at a former defense plant in Nassau County from federal to state court indicates forum shopping, according to a judge's ruling.
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By Josefa Velasquez | December 15, 2017
The authors of the report—Cary Silverman and Mark Behrens, partners at Shook, Hardy & Bacon—claimed that New York's laws "encourage a proliferation" of torts.
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By Amanda Bronstad | December 5, 2017
In a statement accompanying the annual report's release, ATRA's president called California a "perennial hellhole ... where lawmakers, prosecutors and plaintiff-friendly judges inexorably expand civil liability.”
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By Amanda Bronstad | November 6, 2017
A Georgia-Pacific LLC unit is blaming “abuses in the tort system” for the skyrocketing number of lawsuits that forced it to file for Chapter 11…
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By Colby Hamilton | October 24, 2017
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld Tuesday a summary judgment dismissing the multidistrict lawsuit against Bayer Pharmaceuticals, the manufacturer of the intrauterine birth control device Mirena.
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By Amanda Bronstad | October 24, 2017
A judge's ruling tossing a record $417 million verdict in California last week could spell trouble for attorneys handling cases for plaintiffs in talc products liability litigation—and not just because of the massive size of the rejected award.
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By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | September 22, 2017
In this asbestos litigation, plaintiffs' wrongful death claim was time-barred because they failed to amend the complaint to include such a claim within two years of the date on which one of the plaintiffs was diagnosed with mesothelioma.
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By Lizzy McLellan | September 21, 2017
Delaware-based Maron Marvel Bradley Anderson & Tardy has brought on 13 lawyers from Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney Ltd., expanding its reach into the Chicago and St. Louis markets.
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By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | September 20, 2017
Medical Expert Precluded; Offered No Support for Causal Relationship Opinion
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