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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.
December 22, 2022 | Delaware Business Court Insider
Judges in high-profile mass tort bankruptcies involving Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder and 3M's combat earplugs came out with critical rulings this year, but all eyes are on appeals for 2023.
By Amanda Bronstad
7 minute read
December 20, 2022 | Delaware Business Court Insider
The verdict, announced on Tuesday, the latest to award damages to parents, teachers and children who suffered brain damage after being exposed to polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, at their school in Monroe, Washington.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
December 9, 2022 | Delaware Business Court Insider
Elon Musk plans to testify in a Jan. 17 jury trial in which Tesla shareholders allege his 2018 statements on Twitter about going private were fraudulent.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
December 6, 2022 | Delaware Business Court Insider
"The effects of these decisions could reverberate across the country," said Ericka Johnson, a partner at Womble Bond Dickinson.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
August 17, 2022 | Delaware Business Court Insider
Opioid drug manufacturer Endo Pharmaceuticals filed a Chapter 11 petition late Tuesday, agreeing to provide $450 million to state and local governments.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
April 28, 2022 | Delaware Business Court Insider
Several prominent plaintiffs attorneys like Mikal Watts and Paul Napoli have relocated to Puerto Rico. Now, they and others are pitching an inaugural Mass Torts Puerto Rico conference next week in San Juan.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
March 11, 2022 | Delaware Business Court Insider
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
January 21, 2022 | Delaware Business Court Insider
Laura Davis Jones, a partner at Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones in Wilmington, Delaware, said at the hearing that the dual committees would "foster division, not compromise," and create an "enhanced footing of one subset of talc claimants."
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
December 21, 2021 | Delaware Business Court Insider
Lawyers for talc claimants have moved to dismiss the Chapter 11 case, filed by LTL Management, a newly created subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, to resolve more than 38,000 lawsuits alleging that its talcum powder products cause ovarian cancer or mesothelioma.
By Amanda Bronstad
9 minute read
November 11, 2021 | Delaware Business Court Insider
Two related bankruptcies were in nearby Delaware, and about 35,000 of the lawsuits were in multidistrict litigation in New Jersey.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
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