Amanda Bronstad

December 20, 2016 | National Law Journal

'Tis the season for cramped airplanes – and lawsuits. Luggage falling on heads and hot tea spilling in laps &ndash are just some of the routine incidents on today's flights that sometimes end up in injury suits.

By Amanda Bronstad

9 minute read

December 16, 2016 | National Law Journal

Plaintiffs lawyers are fighting to keep their talcum powder cases against Johnson & Johnson out of multidistrict litigation in New Jersey federal court; aiming to return them to state courts, where juries in Missouri have awarded megaverdicts to women who said the products caused them to get ovarian cancer.

By Amanda Bronstad

27 minute read

December 14, 2016 | National Law Journal

For three major corporations with mass tort troubles, 2016 was the year of the good, the bad and the ugly. It was good for General Motors Co., which avoided jury verdicts against it in six bellwether trials over its ignition switch defect. For Volkswagen, it was pretty bad: The automaker paid billions of dollars after admitting its "clean diesel" cars skirted emissions tests. And for Johnson & Johnson, it was just plain ugly, with five verdicts, including one surpassing $1 billion, over its hip implants and iconic baby powder.

By Amanda Bronstad

20 minute read

December 13, 2016 | The Recorder

A Utah-based startup that streams movies after filtering out profanity, violence and other objectionable content has vowed to take a copyright battle against Hollywood all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

By Amanda Bronstad

11 minute read

December 12, 2016 | The Recorder

The family members of a Malaysian financier at the center a $3.5 billion money laundering case involving the film "The Wolf of Wall Street" have asked to intervene in hopes of asserting a claim over several high-priced hotels and condos in New York and California, a Bombardier jet and music royalties.

By Amanda Bronstad

12 minute read

December 09, 2016 | Daily Report Online

A Georgia sperm bank is facing nearly a dozen "novel and cutting edge" lawsuits in four states and Canada that allege it misled women about a donor who turned out to be convicted on burglary and a diagnosed schizophrenic.

By Amanda Bronstad

7 minute read

December 08, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

Two women have been appointed to lead federal multidistrict litigation over Johnson & Johnson's baby powder, including one whose firm obtained three verdicts this year.

By Amanda Bronstad

13 minute read

December 08, 2016 | The Recorder

A federal judicial panel has ordered that class actions filed over Yahoo's data breach this year be sent to U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

December 07, 2016 | New Jersey Law Journal

After Johnson & Johnson got hit with a $1 billion verdict last week, plaintiffs lawyers were quick to paint a portrait of the company as an aggressive litigator uninterested in settling whose actions have prompted juries to award gargantuan punitive damages. It's the same refrain that plaintiffs attorneys have been touting this year as Johnson & Johnson has gotten hammered with five big verdicts over its hip implants and talcum powder products.

By Amanda Bronstad

45 minute read

December 07, 2016 | National Law Journal

After Johnson & Johnson got hit with a $1 billion verdict last week, plaintiffs lawyers were quick to paint a portrait of the company as an aggressive litigator uninterested in settling whose actions have prompted juries to award gargantuan punitive damages. It's the same refrain that plaintiffs attorneys have been touting this year as Johnson & Johnson has gotten hammered with five big verdicts over its hip implants and talcum powder products.

By Amanda Bronstad

45 minute read