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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.
July 11, 2023 | Law.com
Lawyers predict lawsuits on behalf of hundreds of survivors of the Marshall Fire after the Boulder County Sheriff's Office released its investigative report on June 8 attributing the blaze's cause in part to Xcel Energy's power lines.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
July 6, 2023 | Law.com
Frank, of the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute and the Center for Class Action Fairness, filed his opening brief on Wednesday before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, which reversed another settlement three months ago because the lead plaintiffs lacked standing.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
July 3, 2023 | Law.com
Lawyers say Bard's PowerPort devices, which pump intravenous chemotherapy and other fluids injected into the bloodstream, could generate up to 10,000 lawsuits.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
June 29, 2023 | Law.com
U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin, who held an initial conference in the multidistrict litigation on Wednesday, appointed a group of seven men and five women to spearhead the Tepezza cases.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
June 23, 2023 | Law.com
3M's $12.5 billion deal to resolve lawsuits brought by hundreds of water providers is one of the largest settlements to date involving contaminated drinking water, but it's a fraction of its legal liability involving 'forever chemicals.'
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
June 22, 2023 | Law.com
"This historic settlement is the largest amount ever paid by a single company to resolve claims involving contaminated drinking water and provides compensation critical to protecting our nation's drinking water supplies and upgrading our water treatment infrastructure to deal with this new threat," said Paul Napoli, a partner at Napoli Shkolnik and co-lead counsel for the plaintiffs.
By Amanda Bronstad
2 minute read
June 22, 2023 | The Recorder
Co-lead class counsel Derek Loeser and Lesley Weaver defended their fee request: 'This was a hard-fought litigation over five years that yielded the largest privacy class action recovery to date and the most Facebook has ever paid to resolve a class action.'
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
June 22, 2023 | Law.com
In motions filed this week, Southwest Airlines cited the "first-to-file" rule in arguing that three California class actions should be dismissed or transferred to Louisiana, where one lawsuit is pending.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
June 20, 2023 | Law.com
In multidistrict litigation dockets created in 2022, about 13% of plaintiffs lawyers appointed to leadership posts were not white, according to Law.com's exclusive data. That's down from the 16% in 2021, and 14% in 2020, but up from 2016 to 2019, when white attorneys dominated with 95% of appointments.
By Amanda Bronstad
9 minute read
June 12, 2023 | Law.com
On Friday, the jury reached its verdict, which Mulnomah County Circuit Court Judge Steffan Alexander read on Monday. The trial moves to a second phase of punitive damages, which could reach $15 billion when including the entire class.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
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