Aleeza Furman

August 16, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

While the Third Circuit held that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act preempted plaintiffs' state failure-to-warn claims, prior rulings from the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits on the same issue rejected Monsanto's preemption arguments.

By Aleeza Furman

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August 15, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

"Counsel are well advised to heed one lesson from this experience in particular, among the many," Bissoon wrote. "This court is immune from gaslighting. It will not work, and attempts will be met with great disfavor."

By Aleeza Furman

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August 14, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Mongeluzzi said the panel's holding on the Statutory Employer Doctrine's application was fact-specific, but the doctrine itself is under scrutiny beyond this particular case.

By Aleeza Furman

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August 08, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

"Oftentimes in explosion cases, you have federal agencies that do really thorough investigations," Howell said. "In this one we were just told essentially, 'It was an accidental explosion involving a shop vac.' We got nothing else."

By Aleeza Furman

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August 08, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Defendant Syngenta Crop Protection had urged the Superior Court to permit its appeal, arguing that there was an "urgent need for clarity concerning the constitutional and jurisdictional questions left in Mallory's wake."

By Aleeza Furman

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August 07, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

"We always keep our eye on bills that are being proposed. And again, our goal is to make sure whatever laws are passed are fair and equitable to everybody, not just the insurance industry or the hospital associations," Luxenberg Garbett Kelly George partner Lawrence Kelly said.

By Aleeza Furman

6 minute read

August 07, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

"You don't know until you try. I know it was attempted before and it didn't happen," Hertzberg said.

By Aleeza Furman

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August 06, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

In order to prove the hospital's negligence, plaintiffs counsel had to refute their own client's version of events.

By Aleeza Furman

4 minute read

August 02, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

"Philips RS has spent hundreds of millions of dollars toward this recall and would have pursued a different and more focused recall had PSN not made its serious mistakes and greatly overestimated the potential threat to patients," the plaintiffs claimed.

By Aleeza Furman

3 minute read

July 31, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

"More fundamentally, before you think about a malpractice suit or a wrongful death suit, it enables somebody to have an avenue to get the judiciary involved when it comes to a point when the coroner or medical examiner are acting absolutely unreasonably," Podraza said.

By Aleeza Furman

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