Amanda Bronstad

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

December 07, 2016 | New Jersey Law Journal

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

12 minute read

December 05, 2016 | National Law Journal

Chicago's Edelson PC claims that lawyers in Texas, California and Illinois have conspired as part of a racketeering enterprise to extort payments in class actions.

By Amanda Bronstad

7 minute read

December 05, 2016 | National Law Journal

Merck & Co. Inc. had just wiped out 650 products liability lawsuits in federal court over its osteoporosis drug Fosamax when the first trial in California state court began.

By Amanda Bronstad

5 minute read

December 05, 2016 | National Law Journal

C.R. Bard Inc. had a tough road ahead earlier this year to convince a jury that its pelvic mesh device, used to treat urinary incontinence, didn't cause a woman's severe pain.

By Amanda Bronstad

9 minute read

December 05, 2016 | National Law Journal

Mike Brock had just begun the first bellwether trial over General Motors Co.'s ignition-switch defect when a call came into the automaker's hotline.

By Amanda Bronstad

7 minute read

December 05, 2016 | National Law Journal

After a "60 Minutes" exposé revealed that its Chinese-made laminate wood flooring contained excessive levels of formaldehyde, Lumber Liquidators Inc. was hit with ­dozens of lawsuits, and state and federal ­investigations.

By Amanda Bronstad

7 minute read