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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.
August 30, 2021 | Law.com
Recent recalls of consumer products like Peloton treadmills, sleep apnea machines and sunscreen haven't faced the same level of legal exposure. Plaintiffs lawyers who file such class actions say a lot depends on the details of the recall.
By Amanda Bronstad
8 minute read
August 24, 2021 | Law.com
Four law firms preparing for a talcum powder trial next month against Johnson & Johnson filed an emergency motion and petition Tuesday to prevent the company's potential bankruptcy filing, which would halt their lawsuit and potentially that of tens of thousands of other cases.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
August 12, 2021 | Law.com
A report released on Thursday by Lex Machina, a unit of LexisNexis, found that consumer protection filings in federal court, including data breach class actions, dropped to 12,922 from 14,432 in 2019, even though the COVID-19 pandemic created some new cases.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
July 30, 2021 | Law.com
Friday's defense verdict comes four days after an Illinois judge issued a contempt order against Johnson & Johnson because its corporate witness, who testified in the trial, failed to appear for cross-examination.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
July 27, 2021 | New Jersey Law Journal
A lawsuit filed in New Jersey Superior Court on behalf of the National Council of Negro Women alleges that Johnson & Johnson marketed its baby powder to Black women, many of whom died of ovarian cancer.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
July 26, 2021 | Law.com
An Illinois state court judge issued the contempt order Monday against Johnson & Johnson and its vice president of women's health, Dr. Susan Nicholson, after she failed to appear for cross-examination as a defense witness in the trial, according to Beasley Allen, which is representing plaintiff Colleen Cadagin.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
July 19, 2021 | Law.com
Johnson & Johnson's July 14 recall of five sunscreen products found to contain dangerous levels of benzene only scratches the surface, say lawyers, who are preparing for more lawsuits—and more recalls.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
July 9, 2021 | Law.com
A year after the COVID-19 pandemic halted trial plans, jurors are scheduled to hear three cases this summer in Illinois, Pennsylvania and Missouri, alleging Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder products caused ovarian cancer. The first one, brought on behalf of Elizabeth Driscoll, who died in 2016 at age 69, begins July 12—and could involve only vaccinated jurors.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
June 17, 2021 | Law.com
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
June 2, 2021 | New Jersey Law Journal
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision on Tuesday not to hear Johnson & Johnson's petition to review a $2.1 billion talcum powder verdict prompted plaintiffs lawyers with thousands of similar cases to declare victory. But Johnson & Johnson, in a statement, said the decision "leaves unresolved significant legal questions" in both federal and state courts.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
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