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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.
May 2, 2024 | National Law Journal
The inaugural Class Action Litigation Report found class action filings steadily increased from 2014 to 2020, dipped 10% in 2021, then started rising again in 2022. Last year, class action filings jumped 4% to 9,705.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
May 1, 2024 | National Law Journal
Wednesday's proposed plan immediately got pushback from lawyers representing ovarian cancer victims: "This is not a done deal," Beasley Allen's Andy Birchfield said. "There is substantial opposition to this."
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
April 25, 2024 | National Law Journal
Senior U.S. District Judge Joy Flowers Conti of the Western District of Pennsylvania granted final approval to a class action settlement over recalled Philips breathing devices, plus nearly $100 million in attorney fees.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
April 25, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal
Lawyers touting a $500 million settlement over insulin pricing are back at the drawing board after a judge refused to certify their class.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
April 22, 2024 | Law.com
Two years after the U.S. Department of Justice failed to block a $315 million merger between United States Sugar Corp. and Imperial Sugar Co., antitrust lawyers have lodged nearly two dozen class actions at the sugar industry.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
April 19, 2024 | Daily Business Review
Thursday's verdict comes in the second ovarian cancer trial since Johnson & Johnson's failed talc bankruptcies last year.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
April 18, 2024 | New York Law Journal
In March, according to Law.com Radar's data, there were 42 antitrust class actions filed, 71% higher than the average monthly rate over the previous 12 months.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
April 17, 2024 | Law.com
U.S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel, who is overseeing the paraquat multidistrict litigation, found that Dr. Martin Wells, a biostatistician and epidemiologist at Cornell University, used unreliable methodologies in concluding that exposure to the pesticide increased the risks of getting Parkinson's disease.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
April 12, 2024 | Law.com
On Friday, lawyers in the multidistrict litigation over aqueous film-forming foam announced the Tyco settlement, which would compensate 12,000 public water systems nationwide with contaminated drinking water supplies.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
April 11, 2024 | National Law Journal
"This mass tort is going to end up being one of the most important litigations in recent history," said R. Brent Wisner, a partner at Wisner Baum.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
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