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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 12, 2022 | Daily Report Online
The settlement is part of multidistrict litigation that includes a separate class action brought on behalf of consumers in 17 states, including Georgia, 39 AGs and Epic Games, but they are not part of the settlement agreement.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
May 24, 2022 | Daily Report Online
Friday's verdict, in Los Angeles County Superior Court, is one of the largest in an asbestos case since courts reopened last year.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
May 5, 2022 | Daily Report Online
Tuesday's ruling, by U.S. District Judge Paul Grimm in Maryland, is one of the few by a federal judge granting class certification in a consumer data breach case.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
April 21, 2022 | Law.com
About 16% of attorneys appointed to leadership roles in multidistrict litigation created in 2021 identified as nonwhite, up slightly from 14% in 2020. In 2016, only 4% went to nonwhite attorneys.
By Amanda Bronstad
11 minute read
March 15, 2022 | Daily Report Online
The fees and costs outlined in the $26 billion opioid deal with Johnson & Johnson's Janssen Pharmaceuticals and three distributors are a mix of common benefit fees, contingency fees and payments to the states for outside counsel. One law professor said, "it's not like the lawyers are going to be impoverished."
By Amanda Bronstad
9 minute read
March 3, 2022 | Daily Report Online
Prominent plaintiffs attorneys Ben Crump and Diandra "Fu" Debrosse Zimmermann announced on Monday a new organization called Shades of Mass.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
February 25, 2022 | Law.com
Johnson & Johnson and three drug distributors—AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson—agreed on Friday to move forward with the second largest multistate settlement in U.S. history after 90% of cities and counties signed up to obtain funds to combat the opioid crisis.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
February 25, 2022 | Law.com
"The court is not persuaded by the objecting parties' allegations of gamesmanship or inequity," the judge wrote.
By Avalon Zoppo | Amanda Bronstad
7 minute read
February 17, 2022 | Daily Business Review
Thursday's hearing for preliminary approval of the Johnson & Johnson sunscreen settlement lasted less than half an hour. U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal told the lawyers, "you've given it to me in a box with a bow."
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
January 25, 2022 | Daily Report Online
"It is correct that a significant portion of this class is bound by arbitration agreements that would preclude participation in this class action," said Alston & Bird's Kristy Brown, a lawyer for T-Mobile, at the first hearing in the multidistrict litigation over last year's data breach.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
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