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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.
June 14, 2015 | National Law Journal
A special master tasked with rooting out fraud in BP PLC's $9.9 billion oil-spill settlement has sought the return of nearly $8 million in awards paid to commercial fishermen and other businesses.
By Amanda Bronstad
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June 9, 2015 | National Law Journal
In an unusual move, a federal judicial panel has ordered more than 100 class actions filed over Anthem Inc.'s cyberattack sent to the Northern District of California.
By Amanda Bronstad
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June 8, 2015 | National Law Journal
Numbers sank at a few shops that shed underperformers or lost lawyers to the competition.
By Amanda Bronstad
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June 5, 2015 | National Law Journal
In an unusual loss for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, one of its own administrative law judges has dismissed fraud charges against a Houston money manager.
By Amanda Bronstad
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June 2, 2015 | National Law Journal
A top executive of air bag manufacturer Takata Corp., testifying before a congressional hearing on Tuesday, continued to defend his company's use of an explosive chemical that he acknowledged was a factor in spontaneous ruptures that caused at least six deaths and 100 injuries.
By Amanda Bronstad
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June 1, 2015 | National Law Journal
Sanford Heisler Kimpel, best known for bringing employment discrimination and whistleblower cases, has launched a practice focused on lawsuits against financial institutions.
By Amanda Bronstad
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May 30, 2015 | National Law Journal
Taking a cue from Kickstarter Inc. and Indiegogo Inc., lawyers and advocacy groups are using crowdfunding to get the public to bankroll social-justice litigation such as cases alleging police brutality.
By Amanda Bronstad
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May 22, 2015 | National Law Journal
Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles has a reputation for handling some of the nation's most prominent cases — all from a single office in Montgomery.
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May 20, 2015 | National Law Journal
Plaintiffs lawyers praised Takata Corp.'s admission on Tuesday that a defect was causing its air bags to spontaneously rupture, but they insisted that the company still hasn't gotten to the root of the problem, which they hope to reveal through discovery in more than 100 pending cases.
By Amanda Bronstad
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May 18, 2015 | National Law Journal
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has refused to invalidate a nearly $2.7 million settlement that BP PLC reached with a member of a boat crew who went to court to enforce the award after he never got paid. However, in its ruling on Friday, the panel determined that claimant Elton Johnson will need to provide evidence to a lower court that he didn't exaggerate injuries sustained in the 2010 blast that caused the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
By Amanda Bronstad
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