By Amanda Bronstad | November 2, 2018
Johnson & Johnson has filed motions to toss the verdict, accusing the plaintiffs' lawyer, Mark Lanier, of referencing stillborn babies in his opening statement and showing a drawing of a woman pushed over a ledge into ovarian cancer.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Jeffrey N. Rosenthal and Thomas F. Brier Jr. | November 2, 2018
In 1999, renowned inventor and self-described futurist Ray Kurzweil—now director of engineering at Google—published "The Age of Spiritual Machines," in which he proposed a formula for calculating the rate of change in evolutionary systems.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Daniel E. Cummins | October 11, 2018
Recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court decisions provide evidence that the pendulum is shifting toward a more liberal, plaintiff-oriented bent that was anticipated with the still-recent election of additional justices to the court to join those other justices on the court of the same bent.
By Amanda Bronstad | October 9, 2018
U.S. Magistrate Judge David Ruiz on Oct. 5 allowed most of the claims in a key case in a massive MDL against opioid companies to go forward, concluding that the complaint was far from a “fishing expedition.”
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Zack Needles | October 8, 2018
Thanks to two recent Pennsylvania Superior Court rulings upholding the "consent by registration" theory of jurisdiction, the first ovarian-cancer-related talc case in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas has been allowed to proceed.
By Amanda Bronstad | October 2, 2018
The lawsuits come on the heels of a $670.7 million settlement with DuPont and Chemours Co. last year involving an MDL over a related chemical that has been linked to cancer and hypertension in pregnant women and other illnesses.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | August 22, 2018
The split panel said the plaintiffs needed to have an expert testify that a proposed alternative design was safer, and not just that it met industry standards.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By P.J. D'Annunzio | August 3, 2018
A federal judge has dismissed and moved out of Pennsylvania all but three of 86 lawsuits that Allstate Insurance Co. has filed against appliance-maker Electrolux over clothes dryer fires that ignited across 21 states.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Amanda Bronstad | August 2, 2018
A federal judicial panel has sent about 100 lawsuits brought over Merck's shingles vaccine to Pennsylvania.
The Legal Intelligencer | Slideshow
By Zack Needles | July 27, 2018
A tour of Griesing Law's new digs, invasion of the out-of-state firms, a veteran judge hangs up the robe and more.
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