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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 2, 2024
According to settlement records, the settlement's group expenses were $33 million, with additional costs expected to be incurred.
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By Max Mitchell | April 2, 2024
According to settlement records, the settlement's group expenses were $33 million, with additional costs expected to be incurred.
7 minute read
By Amanda Bronstad | April 1, 2024
The second trial since the dismissal of Johnson & Johnson's talc bankruptcy last year opened on Monday, alleging its baby powder caused Patricia Matthey's ovarian cancer.
5 minute read
By Aleeza Furman | April 1, 2024
"Within the next several months, the court will be closing the Risperdal, Essure and Elmiron mass tort programs, as the lawyers and self-represented parties work through the remaining cases on the docket," Judge Joshua Roberts, head of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Complex Litigation Center, said.
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By Amanda Bronstad | March 27, 2024
U.S. District Judge Michael Shipp, overseeing more than 50,000 talc lawsuits in multidistrict litigation, cited recent changes to Federal Rule of Evidence 702 and new science since the first Daubert hearing in 2020.
5 minute read
By Chris O'Malley | March 26, 2024
Tracking television legal ads that solicit plaintiffs for mass torts can give general counsel early warning of new trends and gauge the plaintiffs' bar's appetite in product litigation categories.
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By Amanda Bronstad | March 26, 2024
Johnson & Johnson's worldwide vice president of litigation, Erik Haas, and Jim Murdica, outside counsel at Barnes & Thornburg, testified on Monday that they were shocked to find out a former member of their team had been working with plaintiffs' lawyer Andy Birchfield as early as April 2023.
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By Amanda Bronstad | March 25, 2024
Chief U.S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel, in the Southern District of Illinois, has issued a series of discovery orders after finding many of the 5,200 lawsuits over paraquat are "implausible on their face."
8 minute read
By Amanda Bronstad | March 21, 2024
Jeff Kray, of Marten Law in Seattle, accused of holding up DuPont's $1.19 billion water contamination settlement, called class counsel's sanctions motion an "intimidation tactic" based on a "fantastical conspiracy theory."
5 minute read
By Amanda Bronstad | March 19, 2024
A March 15 sanctions motion accused the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California's lawyers of a "bad-faith course of conduct" that includes libeling class counsel, disseminating the wrong information to class members and filing frivolous objections.
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