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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.
September 21, 2021 | The Recorder
The opioid case is one of several mass torts returning to the courtroom for bellwether trials, despite rising COVID-19 cases in most of the country. In the opioid litigation, two other bench trials are pending in California state court and federal court in West Virginia
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
September 20, 2021 | Law.com
Despite continued COVID-19 case surges, juries are hearing bellwether trials across the country in mass torts involving Bard's hernia mesh, 3M's combat earplugs, opioids and Johnson & Johnson's baby powder and Risperdal.
By Amanda Bronstad
10 minute read
September 9, 2021 | The Recorder
Additional trials are scheduled during the next year in state courts in California, Florida, Georgia and New Jersey, and the first bellwether trial in the multidistrict litigation in New Jersey federal court is set for early 2022.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
September 2, 2021 | The Recorder
L. Everett & Associates, an environmental consulting firm based in Santa Barbara, is one of 500 creditors in the Girardi Keese bankruptcy. The firm, which has a $200,000 claim, worked for 20 years with Girardi Keese, often on cases referred by Erin Brockovich. "There was a time when the checks stopped coming, and we became quite nervous," said CEO Lorne Everett.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
August 30, 2021 | Law.com
Recent recalls of consumer products like Peloton treadmills, sleep apnea machines and sunscreen haven't faced the same level of legal exposure. Plaintiffs lawyers who file such class actions say a lot depends on the details of the recall.
By Amanda Bronstad
8 minute read
August 26, 2021 | The Recorder
A summary of assets and liabilities filed Tuesday by the trustee in the Girardi Keese bankruptcy included nearly 500 separate claims from litigation financing firms, law firms, consulting firms, media companies, vendors, former employees and others. It also lists 5,276 clients, including 970 minors, who may be owed money.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
August 23, 2021 | The Recorder
This time, Elissa Miller, the trustee of Girardi Keese's Chapter 7 filing who sued Erika Girardi last month, alleges the defunct Los Angeles firm's former co-counsel in a case failed to turn over potentially millions of dollars in legal fees.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
August 20, 2021 | The Recorder
A federal judge has ordered Ted Frank to provide 10 years worth of court orders involving his objections to class action settlements. But he's also got questions for lawyers in a class action settlement over brain health supplement Neuriva involving plaintiffs in California, New York and Florida.
By Amanda Bronstad
8 minute read
August 19, 2021 | Law.com
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer appointed Elizabeth Cabraser, of Lieff Cabraser, to serve as lead counsel in 50 opioid lawsuits brought by cities, counties, school districts, labor unions, hospitals and others against Purdue Pharma's consulting firm. The next hearing is Sept. 2.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
August 17, 2021 | The Recorder
Attorney Daniel Kramer won a $12.6 million verdict for his client, an injured electrician, earlier this month in one of the first civil jury trials to take place in person in Los Angeles Superior Court since the COVID-19 shutdowns. Other than wearing masks, COVID-19 had little impact on the trial, he said.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
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