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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.
September 21, 2022 | North America
Many law firms are running their Puerto Rico offices on generators as Hurricane Fiona pelted the island this week with high winds and torrential rains. "The amount of water it dumped in a short amount of time was pretty impressive," said John Driscoll, who, like many plaintiffs lawyers, moved to Puerto Rico a few years ago.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
June 17, 2021 | Asia Pacific
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
May 27, 2021 | North America
In a major setback for Germany-based Bayer, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria said "major sacrifices" for class members would have amounted to a great deal for Monsanto, which is owned by the German pharmaceutical and life sciences multinational.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
February 3, 2021 | North America
The class action settlement, announced on Wednesday, includes a $1.325 billion compensation fund program under which Roundup users can make claims for a period of four years. No such fund existed in a similar $1.1 billion deal that lawyers were forced to withdraw last summer after a federal judge raised numerous concerns.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
October 14, 2020 | North America
In the past month, federal judges in California have dismissed cases against Norwegian Air Shuttle and Deutsche Lufthansa after concluding that the airlines did not breach their contracts with passengers, who ultimately got refunds.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
August 28, 2020 | North America
Two months after Bayer agreed to resolve thousands of lawsuits brought over Monsanto's Roundup herbicide, lawyers told a federal judge Thursday that most of the settlements have unraveled.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
March 13, 2020 | North America
The suit, filed Thursday, alleges Chinese authorities "proverbially put their head in the sand" for their own economic self interest, sparking the global COVID-19 outbreak.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
January 24, 2020 | North America
On the day that opening statements in a high-profile case in the U.S. were set to begin, Bayer AG agreed to postpone the trial over Monsanto Co.'s Roundup herbicide as it hammers out a possible global settlement of thousands of cases.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
January 10, 2020 | Asia Pacific
Families of the victims in the 2014 crash will not be able to litigate their case in U.S. federal court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled Friday.
By Nate Robson and Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
September 15, 2017
US firm's chief privacy officer brought in for credit-scoring company's legal defence
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
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