Because it's still on the hook for about $280 million in property damages, medical monitoring costs, and punitives. Now DuPont's only hope of erasing the 2007 verdict is a long-shot trial to determine if plaintiffs alleging exposure to toxic chemicals at an old smelting plant filed suit after the statute of limitations ran out.

An East Texas jury called the latest round for Applied Medical in a long-running battle with Covidien and its subsidiaries over patents for surgical devices called laparoscopic trocars.

Two more state court cases are dismissed on Daubert grounds. One AZ defense lawyer says it's time for the plaintiffs to admit it: The Seroquel litigation is a bust.

A Manhattan federal judge ruled that Tyco can present fees it paid to Boies Schiller as evidence of damages in the company's nearly 10-year-old feud with former director Frank Walsh Jr.

A judge has ordered United Technologies Corporation to pay $473 million plus hefty interest for giving misleading price quotes to the U.S. Air Force, bringing a likely close to a False Claims Act case that's bounced around the courts since 1999.

Three prominent lawyers and a hedge-fund manager launched a Chicago-based litigation financing company Monday with $100 million in capital.

The banks that backed out of an $800 million revolving loan right before the ill-fated Las Vegas resort and casino went into bankruptcy have been remarkably unscathed by the ensuing litigation. In their latest win, they've fended off two suits claiming they cost the Fontainebleau's other lenders millions when they pulled out.

It took nearly five years, but on July 1 Downing and Levitt finally coaxed a $750 million settlement from Bayer in in the long-running multidistrict litigation over contamination of U.S. crops by Bayer CropScience's genetically-engineered rice.