Two species of mass tort litigation � over lead paint and over the cold-medicine additive PPA � have become extinct, at least on New Jersey court dockets, but not before the plaintiffs bar took a beating concerning both of them. In the lead-paint litigation, 26 municipalities and counties went away empty-handed after a state Supreme Court ruling rejected their public nuisance claim. And juries returned defense verdicts in two bellwether PPA cases, prompting dismissals and settlements of other cases.
October 04, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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Two species of mass tort litigation — over lead paint and over the cold-medicine additive phenylprepanolamine (PPA) — have been retired from New Jersey’s docket, and in both of them, the plaintiffs bar took a beating.
In the lead-paint litigation, 26 municipalities and counties went away empty-handed after a Supreme Court ruling in June rejected their public nuisance cause of action.
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