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Transparency rules for funders in tort mass cases, and how funding affects the "business model" of plaintiff mass tort litigaiton
By Max Mitchell | April 24, 2018
If Janssen Pharmaceuticals was the Cleveland Cavaliers, then its blockbuster blood thinner medication Xarelto was the company's LeBron James, an attorney suing the drugmaker told a Philadelphia jury during closing arguments in the latest state court trial over the drug's safety.
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By Amanda Bronstad | April 23, 2018
Plaintiffs who lost all three bellwether trials over Xarelto last year have asked an appeals court to vacate the decisions, saying the judge improperly excluded evidence and gave jurors incorrect instructions.
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By Michael Booth | April 23, 2018
The attorneys fielded numerous questions from the justices on whether the standard for expert testimony in products cases should be changed in New Jersey.
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By Amanda Bronstad | April 20, 2018
A plaintiffs team suing a pipeline operator over a 2015 oil spill off the coast of California scored a rare win when a federal judge granted certification of thousands of property owners. Of course, that success came on the third try.
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By P.J. D'Annunzio | April 20, 2018
In response to a request to consolidate an apparently mounting group of lawsuits over the chemotherapy drug Taxotere, the New Jersey state court system has asked the bar for feedback on the possible establishment of multi-county litigation.
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By Eugene Hamill and Gerard Cedrone | April 19, 2018
As noted in Larry Coben's thoughtful article in the Pennsylvania Law Weekly (“A Comparative Review of Product Liability Jury Instructions,” Jan. 30, 2018, p.9) many issues remain to be worked out as a result of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's 2014 Tincher v. Omega Flex, opinion, which overruled the venerable Azzarello v. Black Bros., 480 Pa. 547, 391, A.2d 1020 (1978).
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By Amanda Bronstad | April 17, 2018
A federal judge has dismissed cases brought by two counties in Utah and Florida alleging Volkswagen's emissions fraud violated their state environmental laws.
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By Amanda Bronstad | April 17, 2018
Wells Fargo could be on the hook for $1 billion in regulatory fines tied to allegedly overcharging its consumers for mortgage and insurance products, but lawyers said the full amount was far from certain.
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By Andrew Denney | April 16, 2018
A Manhattan jury has awarded a record-breaking $60 million asbestos verdict to the estate of a man who died from mesothelioma after working for years as a laborer near asbestos-laden boilers and construction implements.
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By Amanda Bronstad | April 12, 2018
With lawyers at an impasse over settling the national opioid litigation, a federal judge in Cleveland has set an aggressive discovery schedule that includes going to trial on March 18 of next year.
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