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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.
January 19, 2022 | Texas Lawyer
The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday, alleges Houston-based Marker Group failed to safeguard medical records and other sensitive information compromised in a Sept. 3 cyberattack. Morgan & Morgan filed the class action with co-lead plaintiffs attorneys in the proton-pump inhibitor multidistrict litigation in New Jersey.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
December 22, 2021 | Law.com
In a joint motion for new trial filed on Tuesday, Walmart, Walgreens and CVS cited the judge's decision to eliminate unvaccinated jurors during voir dire.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
December 21, 2021 | Law.com
Lawyers for talc claimants have moved to dismiss the Chapter 11 case, filed by LTL Management, a newly created subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, to resolve more than 38,000 lawsuits alleging that its talcum powder products cause ovarian cancer or mesothelioma.
By Amanda Bronstad
9 minute read
December 9, 2021 | The Recorder
A federal judge hearing testimony from two ex-Girardi Keese partners about $2 million in missing client settlement funds turned his attention to Edelson, the Chicago firm that first notified him of the missing funds Dec. 2, 2020. "I'm surprised and don't really understand why I had to learn about this in December," he told Edelson's lawyers Thursday.
By Amanda Bronstad
10 minute read
December 8, 2021 | Law.com
U.S. District Judge Tom Durkin, who issued a contempt order against Tom Girardi and his firm last year, began an evidentiary hearing on Wednesday aimed at uncovering whether two other Girardi Keese partners, Keith Griffin and David Lira, should also be sanctioned for failing to pay $2 million to four clients with settlements over the 2018 crash of Lion Air Flight 610 in Indonesia.
By Amanda Bronstad
10 minute read
December 2, 2021 | Law.com
As of Dec. 1, lawyers filed only 37 motions to transfer cases into multidistrict litigation this year, fewer than any other year since 2011.
By Amanda Bronstad
7 minute read
November 29, 2021 | Law.com
In a motion filed Nov. 26, Edelson accused co-lead class counsel Katrina Carroll of threatening the firm to drop its objection to the $92 million privacy settlement with TikTok.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
November 18, 2021 | Law.com
U.S. District Judge Tom Durkin is planning an evidentiary hearing Dec. 8 and Dec. 9 to decide whether to issue contempt orders against former Girardi Keese partners David Lira and Keith Griffin.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
November 17, 2021 | Law.com
The appeal is the latest effort by Monsanto, now owned by Bayer, to toss thousands of lawsuits over Roundup as part of a "five-point plan" announced earlier this year.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
November 16, 2021 | The Recorder
At a brief hearing on Tuesday, a bankruptcy judge allowed Chicago-based Edelson PC to pursue its embezzlement lawsuit against Erika Girardi, the estranged wife of Tom Girardi.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
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