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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.
April 4, 2022 | The Legal Intelligencer
Three drug companies that won a California bench verdict last year in one of the first opioid trials in the nation went to trial on Monday against West Virginia.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
March 15, 2022 | Law.com
A jury trial over the opioid crisis begins in Rhode Island this week with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius against Motley Rice, two law firms that previously faced off in California.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
March 11, 2022 | Law.com
The fees and costs outlined in the $26 billion opioid deal with Johnson & Johnson's Janssen Pharmaceuticals and three distributors are a mix of common benefit fees, contingency fees and payments to the states for outside counsel. One law professor said, "it's not like the lawyers are going to be impoverished."
By Amanda Bronstad
9 minute read
March 3, 2022 | Law.com
At least four class actions and one pre-suit petition have been filed over a Feb. 17 recall that Abbott announced after three babies were hospitalized and one died after ingesting its Similac, Alimentum and EleCare brands of infant formula.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
February 25, 2022 | Law.com
"The court is not persuaded by the objecting parties' allegations of gamesmanship or inequity," the judge wrote.
By Avalon Zoppo | Amanda Bronstad
7 minute read
February 24, 2022 | Law.com
A lawsuit filed on behalf of a 24-year-old passenger of Ethiopian Air Flight 302, which crashed in 2019, wants to add Boeing CEO David Calhoun and former CEO Dennis Muilenburg as defendants. "None of them has been held accountable," attorney Shanin Specter said of Boeing's executives.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
February 16, 2022 | The Legal Intelligencer
U.S. District Senior Judge Joy Flowers Conti, in Pittsburgh, appointed 33 attorneys in the multidistrict litigation brought over last year's recalled Philips breathing machines.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
February 3, 2022 | New Jersey Law Journal
In three amicus briefs granted Thursday, law professors specializing in bankruptcy, constitutional law and complex litigation supported dismissal of the Chapter 11 case involving thousands of talcum powder lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
February 2, 2022 | The Legal Intelligencer
On Wednesday, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation sent two dozen lawsuits against SoClean to U.S. District Judge Joy Flowers Conti, who is already overseeing the multidistrict litigation over the Philips breathing machine recall in the Western District of Pennsylvania.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
January 27, 2022 | Law.com
Roundup MDL Judge Vince Chhabria called on a federal rules committee last year to review common benefit fees in multidistrict litigation, which he called "totally out of control." But rules changes are unlikely.
By Amanda Bronstad
8 minute read
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