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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.
July 19, 2021 | Daily Business Review
"As long as J&J set the tone by acknowledging their products contained benzene, I'd imagine the other manufacturers, to the extent their products contain benzene, will follow suit, and more manufacturers will be recalling their products, as well should," said R. Jason Richards, of Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz in Pensacola.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
July 1, 2021 | Daily Business Review
In six separate orders Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Robin Rosenberg of the Southern District of Florida dismissed large chunks of the litigation over heartburn medication Zantac, including RICO and medical monitoring claims. But plaintiffs lawyers insist the "vast majority" of their claims are moving forward.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
June 21, 2021 | Daily Business Review
U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers imposed a $10,000 sanction on one attorney and $2,000 sanction against another defense lawyer. "Today these proceedings and the integrity of the court were degraded, they were disrespected by the willful violation of my orders by 3M's counsel," the judge said June 18, hours before a jury issued a $1.7 million verdict, according to a transcript.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
June 18, 2021 | Daily Business Review
The bellwether verdict, issued late on Friday night after a day of deliberations, comes after previous juries in the 3M earplug multidistrict litigation came out with a defense verdict and a $7.1 million award for three plaintiffs.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
June 17, 2021 | Law.com
Lawsuits against China over the pandemic have turned to diplomatic channels to send service of process to the Chinese government, which has refused to respond on immunity grounds. But not all the defendants are governmental entities, according to the lawsuits, including the Wuhan Institute of Virology now at the center of a renewed U.S. intelligence investigation.
By Amanda Bronstad
7 minute read
June 3, 2021 | Daily Business Review
The hearings are expected to address whether to dismiss about 1,300 Zantac lawsuits in the multidistrict litigation, and potentially 70,000 more claims registered with the court. U.S. District Judge Robin Rosenberg, in Florida's Southern District, ordered "our next generation of lawyers" to make the arguments.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
May 28, 2021 | Daily Business Review
A Florida jury rendered a defense verdict late Friday after deliberating for one day. The decision comes after another jury awarded $7.1 million to three plaintiffs in the first bellwether trial last month.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
May 14, 2021 | Daily Business Review
The trial, which will take place in Pensacola, Florida, comes two weeks after a federal jury awarded $7.1 million in the first bellwether case over 3M's earplugs.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
April 30, 2021 | Daily Business Review
After a day of deliberations, a federal jury in Florida awarded compensatory and punitive damages to three plaintiffs in the first bellwether trial over the design of 3M's dual-ended combat earplugs.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
April 5, 2021 | Law.com
The $202 million in attorney fees requested by lawyers who obtained a settlement for residents of Flint, Michigan, faces objections in court, and in public.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
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