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Coverage of class actions and MDL, often targeting the design, manufacturing and marketing of defective products.
By Max Mitchell | The Legal Intelligencer | October 16, 2017
The judge overseeing the pelvic mesh mass tort in Philadelphia has agreed to let the plaintiffs perform limited additional depositions related to a jurisdictional dispute that recently reignited in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Bristol-Myers Squibb v. Superior Court of California.
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By Max Mitchell | The Legal Intelligencer | October 13, 2017
The products liability landscape in Pennsylvania following the Supreme Court's game-changing decision in Tincher v. Omega Flex has often been referred to as the "Wild West" by practitioners, and the practice may just have gotten a little wilder.
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By P.J. Dannunzio | The Legal Intelligencer | October 12, 2017
In response to perceived plaintiff-friendly jury instructions suggested in the wake of the state Supreme Court's landmark products liability ruling in Tincher v. Omega Flex, the Pennsylvania Defense Institute has released its own list of suggested jury instructions.
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By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | Texas Lawyer | October 11, 2017
The plaintiff, a California college student who was wounded in the Oct. 1 Las Vegas mass shooting, has sued the hotel, the concert promoter, a gun accessory manufacturer and the estate of the alleged shooter.
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By Katheryn Tucker | Daily Report | October 11, 2017
Oral arguments on Chrysler's appeal have been set for a special session of the Georgia Supreme Court to be held at the University of Georgia School of Law.
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By P.J. Dannunzio | The Legal Intelligencer | October 10, 2017
A man who was hit in the head by a falling trolley boom lift—a type of crane attached to a truck—has settled his personal injury case for $17 million.
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By Max Mitchell | October 4, 2017
Methods two experts used to detect asbestos in talcum power were not scientifically rigorous enough to allow those experts to testify in court, a Pennsylvania judge has ruled in a case that attorneys have said is likely the first of its kind in the Keystone State.
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By R. Robin McDonald | October 4, 2017
A hip implant device manufacturer that since 2011 has been a defendant in multidistrict product liability litigation on two coasts is augmenting a settlement…
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By Max Mitchell | September 29, 2017
A decision saying it was a jury question—and not a matter of law—whether caustic wet cement was unreasonably dangerous has been allowed to stand as the Pennsylvania Supreme Court declined to review the products liability case.
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By Alexa Woronowicz | September 29, 2017
Finding no "true conflict" between Pennsylvania law and North Carolina law as applied to plaintiff's negligent design defect and strict liability design claims arising from his use of Risperdal®, the court applied Pennsylvania law under the state's choice of law methodology and found the claims to be precluded. The court asked the appellate court to affirm its order granting the moving defendants summary judgment.
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