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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.
January 27, 2022 | Daily Business Review
The verdict, awarded late Thursday, is the largest jury award over 3M's dual-ended combat earplugs, alleged to cause hearing loss and ringing of the ears.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
January 27, 2022 | Law.com
Roundup MDL Judge Vince Chhabria called on a federal rules committee last year to review common benefit fees in multidistrict litigation, which he called "totally out of control." But rules changes are unlikely.
By Amanda Bronstad
8 minute read
January 10, 2022 | Daily Business Review
U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers denied a request from 3M to postpone Monday's trial over its combat earplugs after three members of its trial team tested positive for COVID-19.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
January 7, 2022 | Daily Business Review
Kirkland & Ellis partner Mike Brock filed a motion to continue Monday's bellwether trial in Pensacola, Florida. "The entire team has been exposed — every partner, associate, paralegal, legal assistant, and vendor — and three team members have already tested positive," he wrote.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
January 6, 2022 | Daily Business Review
At the first hearing in the multidistrict litigation over Johnson & Johnson's sunscreen, several plaintiff lawyers questioned a proposed class action settlement reached within months of the July 14 recall.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
January 5, 2022 | Law.com
The Ferraro Law Firm in Miami has accused lead counsel in the multidistrict litigation over Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder of a "money grab" by collecting potential common benefit fees on two dozen lawsuits he settled.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
December 17, 2021 | Daily Business Review
Florida juries this year sided five times with the plaintiffs, granting awards ranging from $1.7 million to $22.5 million. Five other juries came back with verdicts for 3M.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
November 19, 2021 | Law.com
Although most courts across the country continue to require masks and other COVID-19 protocols, some judges are flexible about the rules, at times even asking the jurors what they are comfortable with.
By Amanda Bronstad
10 minute read
November 15, 2021 | Daily Business Review
On Friday, a jury in Pensacola gave 3M its third defense win in the litigation over its combat earplugs. Then, on Monday, a Tallahassee jury awarded more than $13 million to the plaintiff.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
October 29, 2021 | Daily Business Review
Friday's defense verdict comes in the fifth bellwether trial in the multidistrict litigation over 3M's dual-ended combat earplugs. 3M won a previous verdict, but other juries have awarded $7.1 million, $1.7 million and $8.2 million to plaintiffs.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
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