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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.
April 1, 2015 | National Law Journal
More than 75 class actions have been filed against Lumber Liquidators Inc. claiming that it mislabeled laminated wood flooring that emits dangerously high levels of formaldehyde gas.
By Amanda Bronstad
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March 31, 2015 | National Law Journal
BP PLC for the first time has identified in court papers the amount its subsidiary should pay in civil fines for its role in the Deepwater Horizon spill, claiming that anything more than $2.3 billion could result in insolvency.
By Amanda Bronstad
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March 30, 2015 | National Law Journal
Marc Jacobs, a real estate partner at Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg, suffered massive brain injuries when the taxicab he was taking home crashed into a concrete wall. A jury awarded $25.9 million to Jacobs and his wife.
By Amanda Bronstad
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March 30, 2015 | National Law Journal
Tobacco is back. Six of the nation's largest verdicts last year came from Florida juries to smokers and their families in cases against Big Tobacco. But one topped them all.
By Amanda Bronstad
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March 27, 2015 | National Law Journal
The crash of a Germanwings Flight 9525 at the hands of a pilot who may have deliberately downed the plane raises questions about the effectiveness of pilot screening for mental illness and the liability that airlines may face.
By Amanda Bronstad
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March 26, 2015 | National Law Journal
A federal appeals court has found that "service advisers"—those people at the car dealership who give repair estimates—are entitled to overtime pay under federal labor law.
By Amanda Bronstad
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March 25, 2015 | New Jersey Law Journal
A New Jersey industrial landlord has filed a suit against H.J. Heinz Company, claiming the condiment giant breached terms of its lease after allegedly vacating a Fair Lawn warehouse building and leaving it reeking of anchovies.
By Jennifer Genova and Amanda Bronstad
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March 25, 2015 | National Law Journal
Marc Jacobs had just finished a late dinner in downtown Chicago when he hailed a cab to his suburban Hinsdale, Illinois, home. Jacobs, a real estate partner at Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg, had been meeting with an executive from Wells Fargo Bank, one of his clients.But on the way home to his wife and two sons, ages 12 and 8, the cab suddenly veered off Interstate 294, slamming into a concrete wall at 70 miles per hour, according to a lawsuit Jacobs filed. Jacobs, 44, suffered massive brain injuries.
By Amanda Bronstad
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March 23, 2015 | National Law Journal
In a court battle involving perhaps the only song more popular than "Blurred Lines," a federal judge is set to decide whether a Los Angeles-based music publisher has unlawfully been collecting licensing fees for the copyright to "Happy Birthday to You."
By Amanda Bronstad
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March 20, 2015 | National Law Journal
Two leading manufacturers of vacuum cleaners named Animal and Shark are battling it out in court over whose product sucks more.
By Amanda Bronstad
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