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February 05, 2007 |

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Judge dismissed claim that exposure to solvents caused encephalopathy. Jury awarded $15,920 to pickup driver rear-ended by truck. Jury found driver didn�t cause motorcyclist�s death. Family of Exxon worker claimed gas byproduct caused leukemia. Jury found against late WWII veteran on asbestos claim. City of San Antonio settled wrongful-death suit for $250,000.
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November 30, 2010 |

Largest PA Public Corporations

The following is a list of the largest public corporations in Pennsylvania as reported in the 2010 edition of PaLAW magazine.
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August 18, 2003 |

In re The Muralo Company, Inc.,

Where thousands of asbestos-related claims throughout the country have been filed against the debtors by plaintiffs, who are represented by 76 attorneys, the debtors' motion to permit service on the attorneys, rather than on the individual plaintiffs, in the debtors' adversary proceeding seeking a declaratory judgment that they are not responsible for the asbestos claims, is granted; in a mass-tort case, the retention of counsel by large numbers of claimants of necessity defines a broad scope of represen
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November 30, 2010 |

100 Largest Law Firms Alphabetically

The following is a list of the 100 largest law firms in Pennsylvania sorted alphabetically as reported in the 2010 edition of PaLAW magazine.
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August 30, 2005 |

How a Small-Firm Attorney Took On Merck and Won

It wasn't supposed to be this way: The nation's first Vioxx-related personal injury suit was supposed to be a winnable case for Merck & Co. The pharmaceutical multinational had unlimited resources, tapping the prowess of four legal giants to defend the company against claims it failed to warn patients of Vioxx's health risks and concealed the painkiller's dangers. Instead, the jury awarded the plaintiff $253 million. Just how did Houston attorney Mark Lanier score such a big lick against Merck?
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December 12, 2006 |

Who Killed the Mass Torts Bonanza?

The power of the plaintiffs bar is on the wane in this country, and will be for a long time to come. To be sure, plaintiffs lawyers and mass torts aren't going to disappear. There will always be people injured by the products or actions of big corporations, and there's still money to be made representing them. But the bonanza -- the Wild West era in which mass torts was an unfettered frontier and plaintiffs lawyers seemed to have all the firepower -- is over.
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March 01, 2005 |

The Fen-Phen Follies

Even in a litigation-obsessed nation, fen-phen stands alone. After reports that the diet drug damaged heart valves, American Home Products, now Wyeth, pulled its fen-phen products and girded itself for an assault by the plaintiffs bar. Although Wyeth has paid almost $14 billion, it's not the litigation cost that makes the fen-phen story so disturbing. It's where the money went. Court records of the global class action by which Wyeth tried to resolve its fen-phen woes are a veritable catalogue of ignominy.
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January 06, 2004 |

Judge Digs In For Fight Against Recusal Motion

If U.S. District Judge Alfred Wolin is ultimately bounced from the massive five-company asbestos bankruptcy case before him, it won't be because he went quietly without a fight.
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February 21, 1999 |

Legal Self-Help Publisher Seeks Lawmakers Help

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March 01, 2005 |

The Fen-Phen Follies

ven in a nation obsessed with weight loss, there's never been anything quite like fen-phen. It was a set of magic pills from the wizards of Big Pharma: a prescription
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